And You Thought It Could Never Happen
By Sharon Astyk – Casaubon’s Book Blog (14 May 2008)
On Television, the new version of “Survivor” takes over with a new theme – participants must create a fully sustainable society that will enable everyone to surivive. If they don’t, they will never be let off the island.
Van Jones, James Lovelock, Joseph Romm, Elizabeth Kolbert, Catherine Austin Fitts, Derrick Jensen and Vandana Shiva: The seven survivors undergo physical and mental challenges as they attempt to hammer out a set of universal worldwide policies to enable our species to survive. Despite some initial set-backs, as when Van Jones and Fitts tell Jensen to shut up about his parents already, and when Kolbert and Lovelock engage in a mud-wrestling death match over nuclear power, ratings rise as they begin to craft a mission statement. United by their desire to get away from one another, ultimately they create Utopia for humans and salmon alike.
