Why This Gives Me Hope for the Future
Heyyo! It’s video release day so that means a fresh email from yours truly. As always, below are three quotes and three links for you to peruse. Enjoy!
Three Quotes:
“Solarpunk is a rebellion against the structural pessimism in our late visions of how the future will be. Not to say it replaces pessimism with Pollyanna-ish optimism, but with a cautious hopefulness and a daring to tease out the positive potentials in bad situations. Hope that perhaps the grounds of an apocalypse (revelation) might also contain the seeds of something better; something more ecological, liberatory, egalitarian, and vibrant than what came before, if we work hard at cultivating those seeds.”
— Solarpunk Anarchists
“Solarpunk is about ‘actively creating mutually beneficial ties between humankind and the environment.’”
— Mollie Luria-Roberson via Rewire
“We usually ask ‘can renewables replace fossil fuels?’. It is an important question, but it does not grapple with the links between culture and energy. Thus instead solarpunks ask ‘what kind of world will emerge when we finally transition to renewables?’”
— Jennifer Hamilton
Three Links:
What is Solarpunk? (Saint Andrewism)
Solarpunk: Post-Industrial Design and Aesthetics (Eric Hunting)
SOLARPUNK : A REFERENCE GUIDE (Jay Springett)
Hope you have a wonderful weekend,
Charlie