On: Manna – Two Views of Humanity's Future (2003)

[sgarland]

In the story, the utopia was gained by purchasing land as a group, and then sharing its resources. What a frightening concept!

[bigfishrunning → sgarland]

The utopia also relies on resources being effectively infinite, which they are certainly not

[sgarland → bigfishrunning]

IIRC (it’s been a year or so since I last read it), they had recycling, and acknowledged that the resources were finite, but had calculated that for the limited amount of people they admitted, they would last long enough to figure something else out. I may be misremembering.