Solarpunk is the speculative fiction genre that replaced dystopian doom with solar panels, community gardens, and radical hope. A complete introduction to the genre's origins, subgenres, key writers — Becky Chambers, Kim Stanley Robinson, Nnedi Okorafor, Ursula Le Guin — and how it compares to science fiction, dystopian fiction, fantasy, and horror.
It is certainly a disappointment to me. When I discovered Solarpunk, I thought it would be a movement of people who actually want to change things for the better, not just fantasize about a theoretical better world, while passively watching the real world being destroyed by the billionaires.
For some people it is. But I think you are making a category error in thinking that a concept that is primarily ment to open the imagination and move the overton window would lend itself as an activist movement. It is supplementary to one though: https://wiki.slrpnk.net/articles:infrapolitics
For some? 🤷 And you seem to imply that this would be bad?
It is certainly a disappointment to me. When I discovered Solarpunk, I thought it would be a movement of people who actually want to change things for the better, not just fantasize about a theoretical better world, while passively watching the real world being destroyed by the billionaires.
For some people it is. But I think you are making a category error in thinking that a concept that is primarily ment to open the imagination and move the overton window would lend itself as an activist movement. It is supplementary to one though: https://wiki.slrpnk.net/articles:infrapolitics
You have a valid argument, maybe I am just too depressed and burned out to still see the positive.