solarpunk: hope in a time of compounding crises

[mellowtigger]

If you're looking for something to do on Tuesday evening (7pm EST) of next week, January 24th, then check out this remote discussion with hopepunk authors. I've signed up. Hopepunk is a type of speculative fiction that encourages "defiant optimism in the face of hopelessness". It's closely related to the more recognized solarpunk genre, where people and nature work together as a symbiosis rather than as plundered opponents.

There is already a good explanation for the different kinds of punk fiction, but this video is great for explaining solarpunk itself:

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Humanity is on the verge of so many significant technological innovations that it's almost breathtaking. Our immense failures right now are social (and therefore also political and economic). So much conduct disorder, so much long-taught greed, so much self-fulfilling corruption (other people will do it to me, so I should do it first to them, right?). Humanity needs healing. It will take a lot of work to overcome the terrible momentum we have accumulated. But the opportunity for change is real.

"The beginning is near."