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They sought paradise in a Scottish field — and found hunger, boredom and mosquitoes

A review of The Utopia Experiment by Dylan Evans reminds us that designs for living always end in tears, or worse

14 February 2015

9:00 AM

14 February 2015

9:00 AM

The Utopia Experiment Dylan Evans

Picador, pp.225, £14.99

Dylan Evans, the author of this book, was one of those oddballs who rather looked forward to the apocalypse, because it promised ‘challenging times ahead’. If, in the not too distant future, famines and droughts more or less wipe us out, that will be our own fault for allowing population levels to reach an unsustainable nine billion — the predicted figure for 2050.

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