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The following citations are drawn from John Carey, ed. (1999), The Faber Book of Utopias: for population control see, e.g., H.G. Wells (1891), Anticipations; for baby factories: Marge Piercy (1979), Woman on the Edge of Time; for abolition of heterosexual sex: Naomi Mitchison (1975), Solution Three; for depopulated landscape: Richard Jefferies (1885), After London; for abolition of money: W.H. Hudson (1887), A Crystal Age; Edward Bellamy (1888), Looking Backward; William Morris (1891), News from Nowhere; for surrender to the passions: Charles Fourier, see Jonathan Beecher and Richard Bienvenu, eds. (1972), The Utopian Vision of Charles Fourier; for industrial army: Edward Bellamy (1888), Looking Backward; for universal language: Newman Watts (1939), The Man Who Did Not Sin; for literary education, the greening of Europe, subsistence farming and the simple life: Adolf Hitler (1939), Mein Kampf and Hitler’s Table Talk, 1941–44; for manual skills: William Morris (1891), News from Nowhere; and for noble savage: Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1762), The Social Contract.

David Fleming
Dr David Fleming (2 January 1940 – 29 November 2010) was a cultural historian and economist, based in London, England. He was among the first to reveal the possibility of peak oil's approach and invented the influential TEQs scheme, designed to address this and climate change. He was also a pioneer of post-growth economics, and a significant figure in the development of the UK Green Party, the Transition Towns movement and the New Economics Foundation, as well as a Chairman of the Soil Association. His wide-ranging independent analysis culminated in two critically acclaimed books, 'Lean Logic' and 'Surviving the Future', published posthumously in 2016. These in turn inspired the 2020 launches of both BAFTA-winning director Peter Armstrong's feature film about Fleming's perspective and legacy - 'The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation?' - and Sterling College's unique 'Surviving the Future: Conversations for Our Time' online courses. For more information on all of the above, including Lean Logic, click the little globe below!

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