fantastic book! if only there were enough brave, intelligent, authentic humans to pull this off IRL we’d maybe survive ourselves. this book is “Ecotopia” writ global. the california descriptions especially brilliant, as if Hawthorne crewed a dirigible instead of a schooner… it is inspirational and poetic, a nerdfest of science fancy across many fields of study, from economics to glaciology, permaculture to politics. mixing cultural, societal, and psychological realities with all the sciences to solve massive behavioral and environmental problems that exist today are destroying species and natural systems forever. highly recommend for anyone concerned about the planet Earth.