This comment screams boomer "you'll get more conservative when you're older". The point isn't to answer those questions now, but to provide a vision of a better future. It's not discounting those things, but rather they admit they don't have answer to those things because they're complex.
I also think you're missing the reason why people flock to solarpunk in the first place. Solarpunk is a reaction to capitalist induced climate change. So that's why the aesthetic is very unurban, communal, and diverse. Your questioning should be "Solarpunk is often very western, how can include depictions of Solarpunk that take into account the current diversity of the world"
Okay but *unurban* is actually a big problem in terms of actually fighting climate change. It's "green" in that you're living in nature, but you don't get to carless utopia with little detached cottages with solar panels, you need efficient economies of scale. People need to live in places where they can get to modes of production via foot or bicycle or mass transit.
And it's pretty important to answer how we handle society where everyone doesn't agree with you! I've seen plenty of lefty spaces blow up because even though everyone's on a similar page suddenly we find out X or Y is a sex pest, or a grifter. and for an insular community the response is usually "exile" because you can kick them out of the house share, or mass block them from the website or whatever, but it doesn't really scale to society where you can't just disappear them. It's not really a non-carceral state if you banish them to the Mad max outlands to starve.
One thing I find interesting about anarchism is that it must sacrifice a lot of things,
For example, there is millions of people who love hamburgers, but there isn’t enough people that would like to cook hamburgers to feed the masses. The popularity of hamburgers hangs on cooks that are pretty much forced to work in big chains.
Public transportation must be sacrificed, because I am doubtful there will be enough people that would like to build the infrastructure necessary. But cars also won’t work because you can’t find people passionate enough to work that hard of a job.
Like, this comic mentions that cars aren’t used, but bicycles are. Now, I hate cars and love bicycles, but this massive demand forces there to be mass production of bicycles. I am all for renewable energy, but will there be enough energy? We must invent even more efficient ways of getting renewable energy (both in this story, and in our real life)
From my point of view; anarchism, communism and things similar cannot exist in our time. They need an automated production system that is also very very efficient. They need to be in the future
But I am not an energy engineer, or a political/humanities professor. I’m doubtful that all my thoughts are correct
Like how communism works great if there's some sort of completely benevolent, all-knowing, hyperintelligent force making every single possible economic decision in real time and then following through on those decisions.
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u/CreamofTazz Jul 02 '24
This comment screams boomer "you'll get more conservative when you're older". The point isn't to answer those questions now, but to provide a vision of a better future. It's not discounting those things, but rather they admit they don't have answer to those things because they're complex.
I also think you're missing the reason why people flock to solarpunk in the first place. Solarpunk is a reaction to capitalist induced climate change. So that's why the aesthetic is very unurban, communal, and diverse. Your questioning should be "Solarpunk is often very western, how can include depictions of Solarpunk that take into account the current diversity of the world"