Best non-fiction and fiction books about solarpunk?And how can we best ensure that our future will be solarpunk and not the cyberpunk dystopia we're fast heading towards?
>>25237465I find your idyllic vision of the future nauseating.
>>25237467why? unlimited renewable energy for everyone. sustainably grown food ending world hunger...
>>25237465>the world if it was only Europe
>>25237472All non-whites should starve to death, fuck the sun. All for me, none for them.
>>25237465>and not the cyberpunk dystopia we're fast heading towardsDystopias aren't real. People that live in a dystopia don't consider it weird or oppressive - look at the modern world - people from a few hundred years ago would call our society a dystopia. Sure, we have better technology and welfare, but we have far less freedom than we used to. Pretty much everything is regulated in some way, taxes are enormous compared to what they have been historically, people live closely together in mega cities, constant surveillance everywhere etc. But you ask almost anybody that's alive today and they will tell you that we're not loving in a dystopia, but we might be heading towards one. And every generation thinks the same.tl;dr people get used to oppressive rules and will consider them normal if they grow up with them
>>25237465Solarpunk with some kind of electrified dieselpunk tendencies is a lot more realistic. Do you think that a solarpunk version of fucking Quebec or Newfoundland in Canada would involve le meme solar panels that don't get enough sunlight, or winds that are too strong? No, they'll just rely on hydro power, and hydro power requires more than the vague anarchism that solarpunks are fond of. Many regions of the world do not have the temperate, Western climates featured in your picrel.If you are looking for avoiding dystopia and climate change as preached by solarpunk, then solarpunk isn't the place to be. It is a movement without the "move" part, and it does not understand that their ideas have to actually work in practice.A society that focuses on technology that is adaptable and can work in many locations around the world instead of just temperate climates (which often boils down to electrified dieselpunk, diesel-powered machinery that are switched to renewable electricity like electric trains), using brutalist architecture to save energy, commie residential blocks as efficient residential buildings instead of wasteful suburban "solarpunk" cottagecore, precisely defining the environmental policies to be implemented in a country as defined by climate scientists and undertaking movements to implement those policies within governments worldwide instead of whatever vague posturing towards socialism or anarchism that feels "solarpunk", and most of all, embedding yourselves with dieselpunk and brutalist gray colors and pragmatism to combat the corporate greenwashing and idealist wishful thinking. I mean, look at your picrel, a fucking yogurt ad about a privileged rich group of exquisitely decorated and landscaped cottage owning "farmers" in their idyllic countryside, far from any actual cities or industry.If solarpunks are to make any meaningful change, be ruthlessly pragmatic instead of "DIY and opensource will replace factories" as if economies of scale and comparative trade advantages do not exist and have been demonstrably replicated across decades of economic research. Use current environmental economics that relies upon current climate science as your vantage point instead of whatever bullcrap Marx or Bookchin said decades ago. Such economics does have degrowth policies without any of the political pandering built into them. If you present your ideas as "socialist" or "anarchist", or god forbid, "vegan", you will lose support from the actual working class majority that does not want to be associated with them ever, so be pragmatic and present them as economics policies alone. You will need gray-colored industry to make all the renewable energy-producing machinery, electrified trains, solar farms blanketing large areas of land, large hydro projects, and brutalist buildings and commie blocks for energy efficient office and residential spaces instead of your "skyscrapers with grass on the walls" greenwashed bs.
>>25237487try again. europe is fast heading toward relying on nuclear energy (like France)
>>25237504thats a good post and well thought out, and i want to reply more but currently on phone, so just want to point out>"skyscrapers with grass on the walls"rooftop trees have been proven to reduce urban heat sinks
>>25237528Yes, but skyscrapers are not energy efficient to build compared to a ten-storey (or less) block, you hit efficiency barriers after that. Planting plants (not necessarily trees as they can cause structural damage) on rooftops is fine tho, but the classic image of a solarpunk city with tree-lined skyscrapers will take centuries for the extra trees to offset the extra energy cost of building a skyscraper. You don’t have centuries of time. So, this works on existing skyscrapers as it’s inefficient to demolish them, but not new ones.
>>25237519I wish
>>25237493They snuffed out the sun because it was too bright. They made themselves blind because they preferred the night.
Not solarpunk. But a sign of things to come if we don't go solarpunk.
this is a town that had to be abandoned because of chernobyl and is now reclaimed by mother nature. my theory is that as countries develop birth rates decline and large urban centers attract even more of the population (two things that have held for every developed country after a certain stage) we're going to see a lot more of small towns abandoned in first-world developed countries only for Gaia to take back what's rightfully hers.
>>25237519cope muttt>Renewable energy in the European Union reached 25.2% of final energy consumption and 47.3% of electricity production in 2024, driven by rapid growth in wind and solar power. The EU is aiming for a 42.5% to 45% renewable share by 2030, with 2024 data showing continued, strong growth over previous years. Wind and solar are the primary drivers.I will be eating synthetic meat, living in a solar panel powered state-mandated house and I WILL be happy and spend my fulfilling life with dignity and zero emissions
>>25237770>mutttso you think us europeans are mutts? how much of a dumb fuck are you?
>>25237465we have to kill all oil lobbyists and billionaires.
>>25237687Sometimes when I'm sad I think: "in 100,000 years, humanity will be dead, and plants will have grown over everything" and it makes me feel better, unironically. Everything we break will heal, eventually.
>>25237465This image is from a yoghurt commercial
>>25237465To actually answer your question, try Terra Ignota by Ada Palmer
