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( OP here ). For me the core of Solarpunk is that we need to work with nature and we need to inspire people to do so. In my definition, your suggestions are ver
by artpi 5y ago
( OP here ). For me the core of Solarpunk is that we need to work with nature and we need to inspire people to do so.
In my definition, your suggestions are very much in line!
Contrary to some communities, I consider "overthrowing capitalism" NOT a consideration of Solarpunk, and a detractor.
- hosh 5y agoThank you for sharing. You are the second person I have met who espoused that view of solarpunk. So maybe I should give it another chance. I get the sentiment on “overthrowing capitalism”. Since encountering Carol Sanford’s work, I came to see that it isn’t capitaism per se as much as value extraction; and even there, there is a personal growth and developmental stage where someone or communities grow beyond value extraction to something else. Sanford’s work have been very useful for me to understand how to identify and articulate the world view and paradigm from which people are speaking from. As such, one of the things I think I see in art or discourse produced on solarpunk is clinging to a machine worldview while trying to work with nature. Instead, if everything were seen as living systems, one finds the appropriate place for technologies and machines (and businesses and commercial concerns), then it isn’t even about working with nature as if nature were separate from our daily lives. Our role as humans are not about trying to save the planet, but rather, a _participant_ in the ecology as a steward. We’re not above and separate, but already interconnected.