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In brief: Ecotopia is a brilliant story illuminating a possible, bright sustainable eco-future where No. Cal, Oregon and Washington secede from 'Merica and are isolated for decades and a NY journalist visits for the first time since secession. The writing is not that great but the story and the vision of a sustainable high quality communal egalitarian life is brilliant. A must read for minds open to fighting for and having a sustainable, enjoyable life based upon sharing and enjoying Earth. Among the wonderful features of Ecotopia are: all organic food and products, free public trains and transportation, banned personal automobiles, work restricted to 20 hrs a week, neighborhood townhall meetings and what seemed to me a form of direct democracy ... and ... without any influence from the American capitalist empire.

Ecotopia is my go to suggested read for all i meet who have been buried by the existing capitalist 1% dystopic paradigm and are having a hard time visualizing a sustainable future. I've been reading Franco Berardi lately and his take is that around 1977 the world transformed from a place of optimism to a place of no future and that now we are surrounded by a hyperaccelerated virtualized financialized reality that does indeed, have no future. There are unlimited numbers of dystopias in book and film but almost no eutopias. Eutopia is Greek, for the good place, the total opposite of Utopia a fake paradise and punching bag of capitalism to "prove" there are no paradises, except the rotten capitalist pyramid schemes the 1% are running now.

I chanced onto this page to copy a link to a Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ' review of Ecotopia and was amazed to see a sizeable minority of people with one star or negative reviews and started reading them. Whoa! Here's the No Future community Berardi has partially been addressing. The reviews were imaginationless, blindered by "pragmatics" as determined by the corporate PR that has filtered through our textbooks, media and social engineering for the last 40 years. I made comments and was immediately swarmed by thought police Mr. Smiths (see the film "The Matrix"). Whether paid trolls of not their responses were self-policing trollisms on behalf of the neoliberal tyranny. The very opposite of the beautiful future envisioned by Callenbach. READ THIS BOOK!