Author Question: Why is the Pacific Northwest region often referred to as Ecotopia by literary scholars and the ... (Read 51 times)

hbsimmons88 · **on:** Aug 7, 2018

Why is the Pacific Northwest region often referred to as Ecotopia by literary scholars and the popular press?

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Question 2

What is the relationship, if any, between the location patterns of California's largest metropolitan areas and the most seismically active parts of the state?

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aadams68 · **Reply #1 on:** Aug 7, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Students should know that this was because of a novel by Ernest Callenbach called Ecotopia. Ecotopia, meaning ecological utopia, was a linear region from San Francisco to southern Alaska that, in the book, attempted to secede from the United States. More recently, this same region of North America is referred to as Cascadia based on its environmental connections and its environmentally conscious sense of place.

Answer to Question 2

This question is not directly covered in the text, but students might infer that because most large cities are located near the coast and the plate boundary is also located near the coast, that there tends to be dense populations in seismically active areas.