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Title: Hippytopia
Review: I lived in Northern California during the 1960s and 1970s and I feel that the book is less about environmentalism or ecology or sustainable growth or anything objective and more about the author's own journey from an ideal happy life in a rural farm in Pennsylvania to a painful experience in Chicago and finally to some kind of childlike euphoria in the hippy culture of northern California in the early 1970s.Although he chose the title as Eco-topia what he actually describes is his version of the final fulfillment of the hippy ideal of life. The book is much more readable and digestible if we think of it as a novel in the fairy-tale land of Hippytopia where trains traveling at 225 miles per hour provide no seats or seat belts but cushions on the floor and recycle bins marked Metal, Glass, and Plastic and where passengers relax with a communal joint. It is in many ways the final gasp of hippydom. Don't bogart that joint my friend, pass it over to me.
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