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Title: A Solarpunk Manifesto Author: The Solarpunk Community Language: en Topics: solarpunk, manifesto, art, introductory Source: http://www.re-des.org/a-solarpunk-manifesto/
Solarpunk is a movement in speculative fiction, art, fashion, and
activism that seeks to answer and embody the question “what does a
sustainable civilization look like, and how can we get there?”
The aesthetics of solarpunk merge the practical with the beautiful, the
well-designed with the green and lush, the bright and colorful with the
earthy and solid.
Solarpunk can be utopian, just optimistic, or concerned with the
struggles en route to a better world , but never dystopian. As our world
roils with calamity, we need solutions, not only warnings.
Solutions to thrive without fossil fuels, to equitably manage real
scarcity and share in abundance instead of supporting false scarcity and
false abundance, to be kinder to each other and to the planet we share.
Solarpunk is at once a vision of the future, a thoughtful provocation, a
way of living and a set of achievable proposals to get there.
are trying to take it back.
despair.
of what humanity can achieve: a post-scarcity, post-hierarchy,
post-capitalistic world where humanity sees itself as part of nature and
clean energy replaces fossil fuels.
post-capitalism, decolonialism and enthusiasm. It is about going in a
different direction than the mainstream, which is increasingly going in
a scary direction.
the stories, it is also about how we can get there.
way to do solarpunk. Instead, diverse communities from around the world
adopt the name and the ideas, and build little nests of self-sustaining
revolution.
vocabulary through which to describe one possible future. Instead of
embracing retrofuturism, solarpunk looks completely to the future. Not
an alternative future, but a possible future.
steampunk’s potentially quasi-reactionary tendencies: it is about
ingenuity, generativity, independence, and community.
right now, and also for the generations that follow us.
we already have. Imagine “smart cities” being junked in favor of smart
citizenry.
fiction have had on each other.
a form of activism.
insuperable gap between rich and poor, and a society controlled by
corporations. Not in hundreds of years, but within reach.
grids, ways of creating autonomous functioning systems. It is about
loving the world.
genders and sexual identities.
embraces not just mere tolerance, but a more expansive compassion and
acceptance.
stands, it is a mash-up of the following:1800s age-of-sail/frontier
living (but with more bicycles)Creative reuse of existing infrastructure
(sometimes post-apocalyptic, sometimes present-weird)Appropriate
technologyArt NouveauHayao MiyazakiJugaad-style innovation from the
non-Western worldHigh-tech backends with simple, elegant outputs
Urbanism or New Pedestrianism and environmental sustainability.
gain, amongst other things, using different technologies. The objective
is to promote self sufficiency and living within natural limits.
destruction of our planet. We’ve learned to use science wisely, for the
betterment of our life conditions as part of our planet. We’re no longer
overlords. We’re caretakers. We’re gardeners.
beautifulcan happen. Now