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Cuma's Voice An Environmental Utopia
Author: William Young

Have you ever dreamt about living in a perfect world? How would it be different from the world in which you now live? How would you want to spend most of your time? How would your relationships with other people change? How would government, schooling, and employment be different? Would you want to live a longer life? Would you want a diff... more »erent type of body? In Cuma’s Voice: An Environmental Utopia, author William Young imagines a utopian world that might have evolved on Earth had human society not developed along technological lines. He describes a world based on the principles of peace, happiness, equality, and environmental sustainability. The novel features sixteen conversations between Cynthia, a middle-aged engineer who works the night shift at an American radio station, and Cuma, a creature who lives in a utopian rain forest on a distant planet. The conversations examine attitudes about the environment, social structures, education, religion, and human conflict. In the process, the dialogues raise important questions about the meaning of both sustainability and progress. According to Young, utopian writers have two main options when imagining a perfect world: they can take the current world as a given and suggest ways to improve it, or they can imagine a world that is fundamentally different from the one in which we now live. According to Young: "The problem with the first approach is that many entrenched practices in the current world make utopia impossible – you cannot expect to build a sturdy house on a dilapidated foundation. Some of the early utopian writings of Plato and Thomas More accepted the existing societal practices, and their utopias feature slavery and warfare. I attempt to identify and confront the problems with the foundation, which is why my novel employs the second approach." Young, who lives in Northern Virginia, has traveled extensively throughout the world to study birds and natural history. His favorite destination is Australia, which he has visited numerous times. He said: "Australia’s vegetation and wildlife is significantly unlike what is found in the United States. When you observe an ecosystem that is very different, you can gain important perspectives and understanding on the flora and fauna where you live. I built on this concept when I wrote my novel. By presenting a world that is significantly unlike Western industrialized society, I hope readers of Cuma’s Voice: An Environmental Utopia will gain perspective and understanding about the way we now live. And ideally, such new understanding might inspire people to develop ways make life on Earth happier and more sustainable."

ISBN-13: 9781413450569
ISBN-10: 1413450563
Publication Date: 5/14/2004
Pages: 281
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Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Book Type: Paperback
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