We’ve added a lot of subscribers since we first published our deep-dive on what solarpunk is back in 2022. That’s why we’re sharing a concise explanation of our scene in this post. It’s for all of you who’ve come more recently to this newsletter and as a refresher for those OGs who have been with us for a long time (love you guys).
i’m always trying to take notes & inspiration from solarpunk stories about what can be done here & now, so for me, if a story’s setting is post-apocalyptic or society only improved after some extinction event getting rid of most humans, i tend to skip it.
most of us have been consuming (or at least couldn’t avoid hearing about) apocalypse-themed media for our whole lives. i think it’s really important for us as a society to work on imagining a non-apocalyptic world, because we need to imagine something before we can make it reality. 🙌
100%. Also humans seem to have a natural tendency to ideate about the apocalypse that goes beyond the rational. All kinds of people have been predicting the end of the world for millenia at minimum, and so far they’ve all been wrong. It’s a lot less likely than we think it is, and so predicating our ideas and actions on this fringe situation that is unlikely to happen in our lifetimes renders us less able to act in the conditions that will exist.
I’m here because I believe in a world where high tech, human nature, and the climate can thrive in harmony.
Solarpunk is how I think that world would look like.I think the one core belief we all share is a optimistic view about the relationship between technology and environment.
I’m not really interested in policing the term “solarpunk”.
As long as you’re thinking about how to harmonize technology, climate, and people, then you are solarpunk in my book.
I guess Metropolis solar?
I like tech and I want sustainability. We “just” need to get rid of capitalism and finish the transition out of fossil fuels but all the tools are there.
no tidalpunk and lunarpunk 😔
I think it was meant to be a very concise overview and update of their prior entry which elaborates a bit more. You can find that here . Those should definitely be included in a larger conversation but some might argue that those are solarpunk adjacent so maybe they wanted to keep it strictly to variations of solarpunk 🤷🏼♂️
was just surprised to see variations like kawaii solar and cottage solar, ones that i’d never heard of… and they have metropolis solar, so they’ve clearly thought about how geographical location affects the expression of solarpunk, but didn’t think about port cities and tidalpunk? the author just travels in different online solarpunk circles i guess.
I hope it will not involve fascist-friendly platforms like substack.
