![]() ![]() ![]() A distinguished but disillusioned legislator, Vera Allwen, organizes a new grassroots party working toward a survival-oriented future. Her mother Laura organizes a commando group of cancer victims to disable plants making carcinogenic chemicals. Marissa D’ Amico decides to devote her life to the restoration of clear-cut and eroded forests. A brash physics student, Lou Swift, invents a unique solar cell that will end dependence on polluting fossil energy. ![]() But then dedicated people begin to respond in their own ways to the crisis, and fresh hope arises. Politicians squabble over outdated agendas while the country declines. Toxic contamination of air, water, and food has become intolerable. This "prequel" to Callenbach’ s classic Ecotopia dramatizes the rise and triumph of a powerful American movement to preserve the earth as a safe, sustainable environment. ![]()
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