Our next book club will be on Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach, published in 1975. The society described in the book is one of the first ecological utopias and was influential on the counterculture and the green movement in the 1970s and thereafter. Although the setting is not in the ocean, there are many philosophical similarites to seasteading.
Here’s the reading scehdule:
- June 6 – beginning of book to the start of the section on “The Ecotopian Economy: Fruit of Crisis” on page 43
- June 13 – “The Ecotopian Economy: Fruit of Crisis” to the start of “Women in Power:Politicians, Sex and Law in Ecotopia” on page 83
- June 20 – “Women in Power:Politicians, Sex and Law in Ecotopia” to the start of “Separation of Functions: Research and Teaching in Ecotopia” on page 127
- June 27 – “Separation of Functions: Research and Teaching in Ecotopia” to the end of the book
