scorching take incoming, fair warning still here? here it goes: solarpunk aesthetics are cryptoreactionary bullshit, an anti-intellectual "back to the land" ideology dressed up in eco-leftist branding
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density is far and away the most ecologically efficient way to house millions and millions of people the good future looks like a few ultradense cities surrounded by vast tracts of sparsely inhabited rewilded land
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the idea that the most ecologically efficient solution is ten million people each living in their own detached but ~~high efficiency~~ house is cute, in the way that cottagecore is cute, but it ignores the devastating consequences of ecosystem fragmentation
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Replying to @perdricof
I thought solarpunk was housing projects covered in kudzu
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eh, that's why this is a hot take there are ways of interpreting solarpunk aesthetics where it's most about greening rooftops, building energy-efficient highrises, etc. then sometimes it tends more like this http://www.susted.com/wordpress/content/solarpunk-the-pedagogical-value-of-utopia_2020_05/ …pic.twitter.com/NdB48C2CCw
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"Solarpunk" is called that because it's sort of a response/rebuke to the old-school cyberpunk aesthetic Even though the whole issue is that the "wretched teeming hive" of most classic cyberpunk cities is probably much more eco-friendly than most alternatives
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