Susan Kaye Quinn 🌱(she/her)
@susankayequinn@wandering.shop  ·  activity timestamp last week

Love this #solarpunk essay by @eruditelijah.bsky.social!

I keep saying #solarpunk is robust: people keep finding their way to it from all different paths. It's co-created. It's meta.

As Elijah says, even if you don't understand it, you still end up doing good.

https://brightflame.com/in-response-to-misinformed-criticism-of-solarpunk/

@BrightFlame

In fact, the entire reason why I advocate so much for solarpunk is because I do think that its more capable of being useful even when fans don’t fully understand it. When people don’t get cyberpunk but like the vibes, they become crypto bros and ancaps and e-accs or whatever. When people don’t fully get solarpunk, they go off-grid or rewild their lawn. If all you know about solarpunk is that they use solar panels, but you like the vibes, than at the very least you’re going to do something sustainable. Thus why the solar (ie sustainable living) IS punk. Because you’re actively fighting against an unsustainable, commodified, and increasingly dystopian world through the use and creation of regenerative tech, communal living, anarchic practices, and so on.
In fact, the entire reason why I advocate so much for solarpunk is because I do think that its more capable of being useful even when fans don’t fully understand it. When people don’t get cyberpunk but like the vibes, they become crypto bros and ancaps and e-accs or whatever. When people don’t fully get solarpunk, they go off-grid or rewild their lawn. If all you know about solarpunk is that they use solar panels, but you like the vibes, than at the very least you’re going to do something sustainable. Thus why the solar (ie sustainable living) IS punk. Because you’re actively fighting against an unsustainable, commodified, and increasingly dystopian world through the use and creation of regenerative tech, communal living, anarchic practices, and so on.
In fact, the entire reason why I advocate so much for solarpunk is because I do think that its more capable of being useful even when fans don’t fully understand it. When people don’t get cyberpunk but like the vibes, they become crypto bros and ancaps and e-accs or whatever. When people don’t fully get solarpunk, they go off-grid or rewild their lawn. If all you know about solarpunk is that they use solar panels, but you like the vibes, than at the very least you’re going to do something sustainable. Thus why the solar (ie sustainable living) IS punk. Because you’re actively fighting against an unsustainable, commodified, and increasingly dystopian world through the use and creation of regenerative tech, communal living, anarchic practices, and so on.