From Capitalist Realism to a Solarpunk Reality: Building the Infrastructures of a Better Future 

I just recently discovered solarpunk and it’s crazy that I found this video on the day of the solarpunk conference 😆

So glad to finally see this come out :D -Ariel

Wonderful, thank you! Postcapitalist realism ftw

Great stuff! Glad to find some Solar Punks.

It's not that we do not have enough resources it's knowing there are countries /people who hoard and also take from others when ideally you should have a sustainable system that is equal give and take and also planned well based off of the time it takes for a resource to replenish and replenish in an appropriate way... there are millions of ideas I am sure we have not tried yet... or at one point in history it was a thing a greed got the better of us I guess. I just don't get why people can not understand the extreme connection we all have and how important every single part of it is for them and for all. It's makes no sense to mistreat foundations if you are on top or vice versa. Every aspect has a role and should be appreciated fully, and shown that appreciation. But I still know nothing

Thank you for the great talks!

Hey comment for the algo! Keep up the good work folks

fantastic

Great presentations! I especially like the final one, Building a Better World. I just had a constant question pushing on my brain: what happens when "the powers" enact violence against the people BEFORE they become a resilient community? I'm going to play devil's advocate and express my doubts and fears, in hope to receive answers I couldn't get to on my own, or be made to notice some fallacies that might invalidate my preoccupations altogether :) So... In the presentation it is assumed that rent-strikers occupying buildings will mostly be left alone until they grow into a numerous and solid community, with its own "defenders"... and THEN a crumbling government sends in some police. I can't see this happening :/ I mean... isn't usually the case that such behaviors will trigger a violent response SOONER rather than later? What if, as it usually happens, the community is attacked before it properly takes root? When "the tide" is barely a splash? The preparations needed to turn a building block of miserable strangers into a tight and functional community based on mutual aid and somewhat independent micro-infrastructures is... long. Sure... rent-strike might be something one does only later on, when a truly collective action is possible, so that the whole block strikes at once. Until then, gardening and mounting some panels could go unnoticed. But after the strike starts, the landlord/company WILL take notice and send someone to sort it out. Then the "irregular uses of company property" will become an issue too. They might even be used as the "casus belli" the company needs to push for the eviction of the whole building (if rent striking wasn't already enough). Fire hazard prevention, you know? At this point the police will get involved to forcibly evict people... and if we imagine the people to be organized enough to rebuff the police... won't this lead to an escalation in violence where the military is eventually involved? What prevents this from happening? :( What can we do to delay/prevent such scenario?

yes we need a better world

I always say take what I say with a grain of salt because I am very subject to change about what his happening as well it is in my nature.

They are a team honestly

What if your ecosystem can't support these systems without fossil fuels? There are lots of places where the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine enough to support? What do we do with neighbors who don't want to enter into our mutual aid organizations or who exploit the resources provided to them (Tragedy of the commons issues)

One of the technologies heavily relied on here are photovoltaic solar panels, but many of these solar panels are only affordable today because of the immense effiecny of the neoliberal capitalist global system. How do we ensure that we maintain affordability in these high-end and high tech products while restructuring our society?

Can we go into lunarsolar punk

Site info to this I came to the conclusion we are under estimating the role of the moon in this.......

Is planned obsolescence reality? How about the depreciation of durable consumer goods? Why does Net Domestic Product only have the depreciation of Capital Goods?

listening to this, especially the final speaker, immediately reminded me of the Capitol Hill Atonomous zone, and the immense disaster that was. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-n4Yf2lW9JuM.htmlsi=pnqlF5NOPcXqT6w8 Its one thing to suggest to society that we move towards more sustainable living situations involving permaculture farming, completely another to attempt to eliminate the nucular family and completely resturcuture all of culture, politics, and society in combination with a move away from a futurist dystopia. Yes the threat of climate collapse is real. No, that threat will not cause humanity to turn away from traditional values and cutural norms. If anything, as the danger seems more and more apparent, those norms and values will grow in popularity and adhearance. The global populist movement currently in effect is direct evidence of that.