Introduction: Continuing the transversal ecocritical praxis project -- The question of aesthetic praxis: if literature and art are propaganda, what is ecocritical analysis? -- Back to concerns about the future: Susan Fenimore Cooper and rural hours -- Pessimism, optimism, human inertia and anthropogenic climate change -- Directing the weather, producing the climate -- Buying agriculture, selling starvation and the failure of business-as-usual in a dystopic future -- Viewing the far fields through an ecofeminist subsistence perspective in an age of land grabs -- From consumables to sustenance through an ecofeminist sufficiency reorientation -- Listening for a way out through a deep yearning for a resounding relationship -- The role of women and gender equality in creating ecotopia.