Ecotopia

[Aditi Nath. Sarkar]

Ecology is a relatively young discipline, only as old as the 20th century. Perhaps it surged in popular and scientific interest in the USA during the 1960–1970s environmental movement. There are strong historical and scientific ties between ecology, environmental management, and protection.Notably ,in 1962, marine biologist and ecologist Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring helped to mobilize the environmental movement by alerting the public to toxic pesticides, such as DDT, bioaccumulating in the environment. Carson used ecological science to link the release of environmental toxins to human and ecosystem health. Since then, ecologists have worked to bridge their understanding of the degradation of the planet's ecosystems with environmental politics, law, restoration, and natural resources management.

The novel ECOTOPIA  (1975, in CR) visualizes the opposite of a Dystopian future, for a particular first world geographic zone .It is a SciFi novel,also  classifiable under many other headings.It is of interest to us because typically it is an attempt to enter through fiction a newly popular science namely Ecology and Environmental Studies.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecology