OPEN A BOOK,OPEN THE WORLD
出版日期：2022.12.01
ISBN：0553348477
書號：00208239
裝訂：平裝
定價：$480
在這裡每週只需工作20個小時；再生能源高度發展；每個人都有舒適的居住空間；人們不再因種族、性別產生對立—歡迎來到「生態烏托邦」，人類與自然和平共處的和諧社會。生態烏托邦由北加州、奧勒岡州及華盛頓州組成，自美國獨立便與世隔絕。紐約時報的記者 Will Weston 是第一個正式被核准的訪客，而這裡的一切將全面衝擊他的價值觀......
全書由記者 Will Weston 的筆記與報告構成，記錄著他在生態烏托邦中的所見所聞，也呈現出物質主義文化的價值觀與生態烏托邦的衝突。作者 Ernest Callenbach 在這部經典中提出了一種全新的理想生活方式，擴及社會的各個面相。他的想法奠基於真實的社會實驗上，書中生態與科技則參考了《科學》期刊、《科學人》在現實層面也具備可行性，因而影響了1970年代的綠色政治與其後的綠色運動。
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. 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 . . . and our future.
Ecotopia 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. Now, twenty years later, this isolated, mysterious nation is welcoming its first officially sanctioned American visitor: New York Times-Post reporter Will Weston.
Skeptical yet curious about this green new world, Weston is determined to report his findings objectively. 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. 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.
