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We began with the premise that humanity can and must produce a deliberate design for its own future. In the preceding pages, we have sought to suggest that a synthesis of environmental and utopian thought might prove of value in developing that design. Here, in a final section, there remains the task of evaluating our findings.
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Moos, R., Brownstein, R. (1977). Toward a Political Ecological Utopia. In: Environment and Utopia. The Plenum Social Ecology Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8597-8_9
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