{"id":980,"date":"2021-01-14T00:06:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T23:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pallarea.fr\/?p=980"},"modified":"2021-01-17T23:49:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T22:49:18","slug":"ecotopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pallarea.fr\/?p=980","title":{"rendered":"Ecotopia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ernest Callenbach \u00e9crit, en 1975, un roman intitul\u00e9 \u00ab\u00a0<em>Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston<\/em>\u00ab\u00a0, traduit en fran\u00e7ais en 1978 sous le titre <em>\u00ab\u00a0\u00c9cotopie : Reportage et notes personnelles de William Weston\u00a0\u00bb<\/em>. Je l&rsquo;ai achet\u00e9 et lu quasiment d\u00e8s sa parution en France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Il ressort maintenant, en poche, chez Folio, je l&rsquo;ai trouv\u00e9 chez Maupetit, mon libraire habituel. Certes, il \u00e9tait class\u00e9 au rayon \u00ab\u00a0Science-Fiction\u00a0\u00bb, alors qu&rsquo;il s&rsquo;agit non pas d&rsquo;un roman de science-fiction, mais d&rsquo;une oeuvre politique situ\u00e9 dans un futur proche. Mais, me direz-vous, on trouve bien \u00ab\u00a01984\u00a0\u00bb d&rsquo;Orwell dans le m\u00eame rayon, alors qu&rsquo;il s&rsquo;agit du m\u00eame genre de roman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>L\u00e0 o\u00f9 Orwell est d\u00e9sesp\u00e9rant, ou \u00e0 tout le moins d\u00e9sesp\u00e9r\u00e9, Callembach est optimiste. Le \u00ab\u00a0pitch\u00a0\u00bb du livre est simple: les \u00c9tats de la c\u00f4te Ouest des USA font, pacifiquement, s\u00e9cession, pour cr\u00e9er une r\u00e9publique \u00e9cologique et, de plus, \u00e9galitaire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Et ce livre ressort au moment o\u00f9, aux USA, une partie importante de la population est tent\u00e9e de faire s\u00e9cession, mais dans la violence, sur un fond d&rsquo;inculture crasse et de rejet haineux des autres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lisez \u00ab\u00a0\u00c9cotopie\u00a0\u00bb. Le style est simple et facile, la trame romanc\u00e9e n&rsquo;est l\u00e0 que pour permettre de pr\u00e9senter des id\u00e9es. Mais les id\u00e9es d&rsquo;il y a 45 ans sont, aujourd&rsquo;hui, encore plus faciles \u00e0 mettre en application qu&rsquo;en 1975. Le progr\u00e8s technique permet de r\u00e9aliser, en 2021, ce qui, en 1975, relevait encore de l&rsquo;anticipation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Le h\u00e9ros d&rsquo;Orwell se nomme Winston Smith, celui de Callenbach se nomme William Weston, comme si, de 1948 \u00e0 1975, 27 ans apr\u00e8s, Callenbach voulait dire, par cette ressemblance, qu&rsquo;un autre futur est toujours possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"304\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pallarea.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Ecotopia.jpeg?resize=304%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-982\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pallarea.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Ecotopia.jpeg?w=304&amp;ssl=1 304w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pallarea.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Ecotopia.jpeg?resize=182%2C300&amp;ssl=1 182w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px\" \/><figcaption>La couverture de la r\u00e9\u00e9dition<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like fcbkbttn_large_button\"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.pallarea.fr\/?p=980\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button\"  size=\"large\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.pallarea.fr\/?p=980\" data-type=\"button\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>45 ans apr\u00e8s, toujours d&rsquo;actualit\u00e9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pallarea.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Ecotopia.jpeg?fit=304%2C500&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pallarea.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pallarea.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pallarea.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pallarea.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pallarea.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.pallarea.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":996,"href":"https:\/\/www.pallarea.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions\/996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pallarea.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pallarea.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pallarea.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pallarea.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}