>It's hard to take that seriously as a vision of the future I don't think it is really, it's escapism fundamentally. There's a lot of "cozy" aesthetics like th

>It's hard to take that seriously as a vision of the future I don't think it is really, it's escapism fundamentally. There's a lot of "cozy" aesthetics like this going around, "Cottagecore"[1] is related cousin, Stardew Valley and games like that embraced the pastoral aesthetics, I think you could also even count lofi music in this. Solarpunk did explicitly start as an activist movement so I think it really does need to ask itself some questions, first I'd pose is how a Solarpunk community defends itself against some less solarpunky and benevolent people. It's a particular irony that defense, rapidly gaining importance in the world, is not exactly suited to be powered by solarpanels [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottagecore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottagecore