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==Reception== Don Milligan in the British magazine ''[[Peace News]]'' gave ''Ecotopia'' a negative review, stating "''Ecotopia'' is a shoddy amalgam of Swedish social democracy, Swiss neutrality, and Yugoslav workers' co-ops cobbled together with the authoritarianism of ''[[A Blueprint for Survival]]''...''Ecotopia'' is a flawed vision of a flawed future."<ref>Milligan, Don. "Utopia Limited". ''Peace News'' 2977. 25 August 1978, (p.14).</ref> In marked contrast, [[Ralph Nader]] praised the book, noting that "None of the happy conditions in Ecotopia are beyond the technical or resource reach of our society."<ref>{{cite web |title=Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach |url=http://www.randomhouse.com/book/23059/ecotopia-by-ernest-callenbach/9780553348477/?view=praise |access-date=12 May 2012 |publisher=Random House}}</ref> According to Scott Timberg, quoting University of Nevada environmental-literature professor Scott Slovic in ''The New York Times'', "'Ecotopia' [the concept] became almost immediately absorbed into the popular culture. You hear people talking about the idea of Ecotopia, or about the Northwest as Ecotopia."<ref name="timberg" /> In ''bolo’bolo'', P.M. criticizes Callenbach by saying:<ref>{{cite book |last1=M. |first1=P. |title=bolo'bolo |date=2011 |publisher=Autonomedia/Ardent |isbn=978-1-57027-241-7 |edition=Third |location=Brooklyn, NY |pages=156–7}}</ref> {{cquote|Dollars keep circulating in his ''Ecotopia'' just as they did before. It is nonsense to propose a system of direct, personal and ecological exchange and to permit at the same time the vehicle of anonymous, indirect, centralized circulation (money). Money as a general means of measurement presupposes mass-production (only in this case are goods measurable and comparable), a centralized bank system, mass distribution, etc. It is exactly this basic anonymity and non-responsibility of everyone for everything that causes and permits all those mechanisms of destruction of nature and people. As Callenbach poses these mechanisms as a moral problem (respect for nature, etc.), he needs a (very sympathetic, very democratic, even feminized) central State (The Big Sister) to repair the damage done by the system, through price controls, regulations, laws and prisons (of course, these latter only "training camps"). What he allows economically he has to forbid politically: the space for morality is opened. (Thou shalt not....) }}
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