Thou shalt not pursue profit at the Earth’s expense but strive to restore its damaged majesty.Ĩ.
Thou shalt not kill nor waste Earth’s riches upon weapons of war.ħ. Thou shalt limit thy offspring for multitudes of people are a burden unto the Earth.Ħ. Thou shalt give thanks for thy food to the creatures and plants that nourish thee.ĥ. Thou shalt not hold thyself above other living things nor drive them to extinction.Ĥ. Thou shalt keep each day sacred to the Earth and celebrate the turning of its seasons.ģ. Thou shalt love and honor the Earth for it blesses thy life and governs thy survival.Ģ. In 1990, Callenbach came up with his Earth’s 10 Commandments:ġ.
This community’s aims and practices are very suggestive of Callenbach’s Ecotopia society. Not long ago, Callenbach learned of the Yamagishi movement in Japan. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.The utopia Callenbach wrote about in his novels didn’t reject all technology, but focused on select types of technology, including videoconferencing. His old beliefs challenged, his cynicism replaced by hope, Weston meets a sexually forthright Ecotopian woman and undertakes a relationship whose intensity will lead him to a critical choice between two worlds. But from the start, he's alternately impressed and unsettled by the laws governing Ecotopia's earth-friendly agenda: energy-efficient "mini-cities" to eliminate urban sprawl, zero-tolerance pollution control, tree worship, ritual war games, and a woman-dominated government that has instituted such peaceful revolutions as the twenty-hour workweek and employee ownership of farms and businesses. Skeptical yet curious about this green new world, Weston is determined to report his findings objectively. Now, twenty years later, this isolated, mysterious nation is welcoming its first officially sanctioned American visitor: New York Times-Post reporter Will Weston. and our future.Įcotopia was founded when northern California, Oregon, and Washington seceded from the Union to create a "stable-state" ecosystem: the perfect balance between human beings and the environment. Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as the "newest name after Wells, Verne, Huxley, and Orwell," Callenbach offers a visionary blueprint for the survival of our planet. A novel both timely and prophetic, Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia is a hopeful antidote to the environmental concerns of today, set in an ecologically sound future society.
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