ISSN: 2265-6294

Scrutinising Tech-Utopia as Eco-Dystopia: An Analytical Reading on Maggie Gee’s The Ice People and Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods

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H. John Samuel ,Dr. A. Rathina Prabhu

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Climate change and global warming are the consequences of technological utopianism's impending environmental devastation. Consequently, the research provides solutions to the questions of how tech-utopianism desolates the ecology and how a world altered by climate change is presented as an eco-dystopia. While tech-utopianism contributes to establishing an impeccable society, it additionally drives up global temperatures and depletes ecological fertility. In addition, the study warns those who yearn for a tech-utopian future about what the world would appear like in an eco dystopia—a world with a changed climate. Moreover, the study concludes that eco dystopia is tech-utopia, by analysing Maggie Gee's novel The Ice People and Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods. Eventually, the paper suggests that having ecocentrism to hope with eco-dystopia by balancing priorities for technology and ecology

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