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Why Solarpunk gives me hope for the future. Go check out Saint Andrewism's new solarpunk video here: • How We Can Make Solarp...
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In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, I look at why solarpunk gives me hope for the future in a world ravaged by climate change and climate chaos. Specifically, I answer the question, what is solarpunk? As well as propose tangible solarpunk solutions like solar cookers and solar ovens, makerspaces, and 21st-century zero-carbon airships. Solarpunk presents a vision of the world that is simultaneously hopeful and worth fighting for. Solarpunk envisions a more just future that incorporates leftist liberatory ideologies into a world that has successfully established a world that is both human-centric and nature-centric. As a result, solarpunk stands in stark opposition to the current capitalist profit-centric world we live in. Solarpunk gives us art, dreams, and culture that are worth fighting for, and it grounds that future in the tools and technology already available.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:03 - What is Solarpunk?
4:23 - Solar Ovens
6:48 - Makerspaces
8:49 - Airships
10:56 - Towards a Solarpunk World
11:28 - Check out Saint Andrewism
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11 июн 2024

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@OurChangingClimate 2 года назад

💡 What gives you hope for the future? 👍 Consider commenting and liking the video!!! It really helps this video beat the pesky algorithm! 🔗 Check out Saint Andrewism's new Solarpunk video here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-u-JvyfZVkIM.html

@SchgurmTewehr 2 года назад

Almost nothing. Kurzgesagt’ new climate change video gives me hope.

@boathemian7694 2 года назад

I’m an electrician, and embrace solar. Sign me up

@falkorornothing261 2 года назад

a lot of my hope needs marijuana to get me out of my head and into my heart. also RU-vidrs like you 🤙

@saynotop2w 2 года назад

I genuinely believe that people born after 2000, however they are labeled, will be the next Greatest Generation. Young people are so bright.

@foodfood55 2 года назад

You should look into Murray Bookchin!

@genogenson 2 года назад

being depressed and having no hope for a positive post-climate change future is completely understandable but we also have to understand that the first step to mitigating climate change is knowing that it's a future thats possible and worth fighting the status quo (not each other) regardless of the odds stacked against us PS: and I'm sure I'm not alone when I say I'd rather fail and die knowing I gave it all that I could than live the rest of my life knowing I could've done more

@goutamboppana961 2 года назад

yes

@GayestWinston 2 года назад

I very much agree! Have you seen the newest Kurzgesagt about climate change?

@veganrican606 2 года назад

Giving up has no solutions, hope put into action can create solutions.

@GayestWinston 2 года назад

@Omorfiá nice😁👍

@genogenson 2 года назад

@@GayestWinston yes I friggin love their content!

@Andrewism 2 года назад

A future with a human face and dirt behind its ears😉 T'was fantastic working with you!🌻✊🏽 Let's make solarpunk a reality.

@goutamboppana961 2 года назад

is the saint andrewism named after St.Andrew or just a random name u came up with?

@CO-kd6sd 2 года назад

It won't be a reality if you keep calling it solarpunk, I can promise you that. Give it a different name but use the same ideas. Words matter to people and solarpunk is considered to be both an art movement and genre of fiction. If you want to be taken seriously and if you want buy-in from those who aren't already sold on the idea, it needs to be called something else. Seriously, a single brainstorming session with eco-conscious communities around the world should present better alternatives.

@yoggothemadgod6196 2 года назад

Could the solarpunk be integrated with the atompunk?

@chalichaligha3234 2 года назад

@@yoggothemadgod6196 , If it's the atompunk aesthetic, then yes. But ideologically, they are opposed. Solarpunk is all about DIY, decentralisation, and integration with natural systems. Atompunk promotes centralisation of energy production, power, and "man's mastery over nature by splitting the atom". Steampunk, whose participants quote "love the machine, hate the factory" and stand for personal empowerment, DIY technology, and aesthetic (historical & natural inspired) beauty, integrates with solarpunk far better in my opinion.

@dontnoable 2 года назад

Capitalism & colonialism deprioritised human animals to various degrees, but also non human animals have been subjegated. Perhaps rather than a humancentric future, a naturecentric future is better? Where we are part of nature, neither above or at the centre of it?

@pabloquijadasalazar7507 2 года назад

I like this, but the hardest part is it requires us to change culturally, literally needing us to change what “traditionalism” means moving forward.

@TheQueerTailor 2 года назад

In fact in many ways we should be looking at the past, at “tradition” we should be looking at traditional farming and building practices to see how these can be recreated to better serve people and out environment. Using things like thatch or wattle and daub to create more sustainable building materials for smaller homes, encouraging people to live in larger groups so that household tasks and community support can be more equally distributed. Learning and sharing traditional crafts so that less needs to be bought from any kind of company and things like clothes and housewares last longer. This also goes for what kind of work is valued, things like teaching, parenting, creative tasks, cooking, cleaning, childcare, elder care, medical care etc. could be equally distributed and actually supported and valued.

@PhilfreezeCH 2 года назад

No idea if it is correct but I have read that every human on this planet could have a 1970s Switzerland lifestyle sustainably. That doesn‘t sound bad at all to me!

@falkorornothing261 2 года назад

@@PhilfreezeCH I pretty sure that's right but never heard the comparison before 🤭 however the people with money and power don't want equality. we have the biggest wealth gap in history. in America the wealthy had a higher tax percentage in 1970 and they still hide billions. America could easily take care of homelessness and immigration(from hidden income), without going in debt.

@kjm2870 2 года назад

Expecting people to be financially stable for years is like letting drivers do what ever they want on road Eventually everything breaks apart.

@TheQueerTailor 2 года назад

@@kjm2870 yep, expecting every single person to be “self sufficient” and economically productive their entire lives is ridiculous, and is unprecedented in human history. In, say feudal times in Europe, which many consider more economically oppressive than today, you would not be expected to say have a new baby or care for an elderly relative without communal and or church support. The Luteral Psalter for example, exalts the ploughman who tills the fields of his neighbors and will till the land of a peasant too poor to pay.

@jennsiser7195 2 года назад

As a future landscape architect: This is my goal!

@ekanshagarwal5125 2 года назад

Future building architect: my goal as well!!

@goodboiadvsp3297 2 года назад

Future electrical engineer with this future as my hope as well

@heh2393 2 года назад

Go!

@oliviaadel8324 2 года назад

Future construction and building engineer: always been my dream ever since I was taught that concrete and cuboid shaped buildings don't have to be the only option.. and I definitely wish to take part of making solar-punk become our reality..

@anthonyortiz2128 2 года назад

Future aerospace engineer: This is my one and only aspiration! Let's make it happen!

@kiribundi 2 года назад

Your older videos used to be about finding problems in our society. They helped me cement this idea that we are f*cked in general as a species. But tbh I love your recent videos that are focused on finding solutions. Accepting climate doom is not an option I can live with. This solarpunk movement gives a lot of hope. Thank you for helping me deal with my ecoanxiety.

@VeritableVagabond 2 года назад

I think one can be a rational optimist. Are you familiar with the podcast Breaking Down: Collapse? It talks about the science and also other issues such as political, and financial that involve collapse. All in all, we can find hope in videos like these; it is good for mental health. It's important not be blinded by our hopes when the data blatantly says otherwise.

@Kiamber_ 2 года назад

I’ve never heard of solarpunk. This is exciting!

@altonsafe 2 года назад

Hipsterism

@ashleybyrd2015 2 года назад

@@altonsafe Hardly

@pepsimann2038 2 года назад

@@altonsafe who cares tho

@altonsafe 2 года назад

for some reason y’all took it a bad way? just another name for it. enjoy!

@ashleybyrd2015 2 года назад

@@altonsafe Hipsterism doesn't have the best of reputations given that it's considered a commodification of rebellion.

@raquetdude 2 года назад

Solarpunk has to break current liberal humanism for it to do what it portrays it does. Social humanism is needed alongside this

@ynthrepic 2 года назад

Not necessarily. We are entirely capable of respecting the needs of the collective while living an otherwise independent life. It seems clear that consciousness and the ability to make free and independent choices provides us with an evolutionary advantage, and is why we're here at all today. Individual pursuit of that which happens to interest and appeal to us is really what it means to be human after all, and not another ant in the ant colony.

@Theorychad99 2 года назад

Yes. Plus an emphasis on the class struggle needed to get there

@testest12344 2 года назад

@@ynthrepic You can live an independent life while having socialist/collective structures though? This is the equivalent of saying democracy is mob rule.

@ynthrepic 2 года назад

@@testest12344 it is, in a sense. But that's what we have communication and cooperation for. We need to convince each other of our beliefs and values and then when we put things to a vote, we won't expect any surprises. The vote is really a way of figuring out who is on what page and why. Of course, communication is hard and we can't expect everyone to know everything, so it's not that simple. But this is all to say individuality is not incompatible with socialism. But your choices will be more constrained depending on how your choices affect others, as they really should be. Not like now under capitalism, when if you're rich enough, the rules don't apply to you.

@flannel2699 2 года назад

@@testest12344 co-owning a method/place of production does not preclude a persons freedom. If anything, it helps provide it. Sharing out the wealth and power more evenly is better for all of us. Even the so called 'rich'. They just don't know it yet :)

@Karmooz 2 года назад

This is perhaps the most beautiful vision of the future that I have ever seen. Thanks for bringing it all together and sharing this message!

@veganrican606 2 года назад

Yes solarpunk getting some sunlight, let's make it a reality.

@slimetank394 2 года назад

I see what you did there

@danmoriarty6901 2 года назад

I literally did my thesis on this entire approach, yet am just learning the term solarpunk. Where can I find more? Is there a community to share ideas?

@veganrican606 2 года назад

🌅

@veganrican606 2 года назад

@@danmoriarty6901 Reddit and Facebook have good communities. I would link them but my previous comment was removed.

@slimetank394 2 года назад

@@veganrican606 just name them, we'll search them ourselves

@LeahandLevi 2 года назад

Oh this is the video I needed! Is there any instagram accounts that talk about solarpunk stuff I can follow?

@TreyCamp 2 года назад

Same

@PhilfreezeCH 2 года назад

There is a subreddit (r/solarpunk).

@Peter-ri9ie 2 года назад

Same here!

@BruceWaynesaysLandBack 2 года назад

@@SpencerScottR checked it out, it’s great

@Momo-zs2gy 2 года назад

In Saint Andrewism's video he suggests some accounts...

@jsnel9185 2 года назад

Being a "punk" since the days of Bad Religion and Bad Brains, you peeked my interest with the idea of "solar punk". This is something very special. Thank you. 😊

@Jay-ho9io 2 года назад

*BR!* Person of culture... Obviously. 👍🏽

@pitabread79 2 года назад

*piqued :)

@bonno55 2 года назад

Solarpunk be like "You achieved the good ending"

@nexusoflife 2 года назад

I've been telling people about Solarpunk since 2014. I am absolutely in love with it.

@SolarpunkVince 2 года назад

This made me fall back in love with solarpunk I discovered solarpunk about 3 years ago (it's where I got my username) and absolutely loved it Over the last few years though, I got very busy with other things (finishing highschool, first year of college, covid, mental health) and kind of forgot about it, to the point where I thought of changing my username But this made me remember why I loved the movement so much back then and how attainable it actually is It reminded me of my stepdads neighborhood, where they have a community center with a makerspace, organised by the community, and a big community garden with classes on how to grow your own food and with beehives and regular markets to sell home crafts and how all that is both super solarpunk and something I want to be involved in more and super attainable, because they did that! I love solarpunk

@tyrreloneal5178 2 года назад

Out of all the futures that have been discussed lately, Solarpunk is one of few that give me REAL hope!

@VerdantGrowth 2 года назад

This is brilliant. This is the kind of positive, hopeful future-dream we all need. Like futurism in the early 20th century, even if the world doesn't become quite like this, it gives us something to aspire to. Absolutely amazing.

@UNSCPILOT 2 года назад

A goal worth achieving, even if we can't reach what we imagine perfectly we could still get close enough to be happy with it, and give ourselves plenty of time to work out the details

@fl00fydragon 2 года назад

Blimps have one oproblem: helium. Not only is it finite, it's rare. Unless we have fusion reactors to produce it they won't work. Hydrogen powered airplanes that use hydrogen we get from electrolysis via renewables and fusion would be a far more realistic means of air travel.

@chosenpawn9368 2 года назад

Isn't there also a huge risk of a blimp exploding or catching fire? Isn't that why they were never really wildly adopted? I know that was a problem when they first were invented, or have they fixed that issue?

@deepseadarew6012 2 года назад

@@chosenpawn9368 The infamous Hindenburg disaster was a blimp full of Hydrogen, which is flammable. Helium is the fix they came up with. It is not flammable, but it is finite. We may run out of it in 30 years.

@tomcapon4447 2 года назад

Actually, they have a second problem: wind. 20th century airships fell out of use, and out of the sky, because it was so hard to keep them safe in a storm. It would be better now that we have weather radar, but it's very much like oceam ships: either get in an enclosed hangar, or get away before the storm comes.

@boathemian7694 2 года назад

Hydrogen is the gas to use for blimps. Gasoline’s flammability didn’t stop people from driving cars did it? Hydrogen is far safer than you’ve been led to assume. I’ve worked with it before.

@liasonlee1248 2 года назад

With our unstable climate system (thanks to capitalism), the use of blimps are pretty limited.

@pythonjava6228 2 года назад

It's so cool to see a collab with saint andrewism. He's one of my faves

@plsarguewithme2665 2 года назад

I found Saint Andrewism's channel a couple months ago. His solarpunk video really inspired me and gave me hope for a better and comfortable future

@gweegoop7781 2 года назад

Wow I am very relaxed after watching this video.

@aubs1387 2 года назад

I love this bit of hope packaged up in a easily digestible video! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

@trunoholdaway2114 2 года назад

This is exactly why so many people love Star Trek, the hopeful vision of the future. Fission and fusion are far superior as energy technologies unfortunately so many people have irrational fears surrounding nuclear.

@UNSCPILOT 2 года назад

Solarpunk is a lot of what Startrek *Wanted* to be, with the limitations of it's time and expectations. Both are optimistic, and certainly brighter futures, Solarpunk just has the benefits of a few more years of experience, new developments, and new understandings of our nature and history. I loved Startrek as a kid, but as an adult, Solarpunk is becoming my creative inspiration and motivation

@trunoholdaway2114 2 года назад

@@UNSCPILOT The writers of the show definitely knew there science. The main source of energy in the show is fusion & with fusion you can transform matter into different elements, hence replicator technology. I love everything about solar punk except the name, it implies a utopia can be built off of solar alone. Unless you're building a dyson sphere there's no way to power an entire advanced civilization with solar. Another thing people overlook is that the sun is a natural fusion engine.

@UNSCPILOT 2 года назад

@@trunoholdaway2114 agreed, and Fission isn't some evil monster either, we don't need to build 60~80s era breeder reactors anymore, we have modern Fission reactor designs that can even use old Nuclear waste and weapons Grade material as fuel. So instead of trying to shove Nuclear in a deep dark hole and wait for it to go away, the best option is to build better modern reactors, especially smaller modular reactors that are way safer and can be expanded as necessary. Solar, wind, and Hydroelectric are all great, except where you can't build them or the weather weakens their efficiency, having clean modern Nuclear power as a baseline will make a fantastic foundation to keep things working, especially if you overbuild it for hyper-reliability and don't cut corners in the name of "profit" And if we get Fusion soon? Holy smokes that opens the door to some mad stuff, orbital rings, launch loops, massive O'Neil Cylinder habitats even out at the far edges of the solar system and equally massive "Gardener ships" (basically a self sufficient O'Neil Habitat with massive fusion engines) to spread life to other stars if we can't find it and make sure that life isn't just stuck on Earth with all the risk history has already shown us, and we'd probably try to terraform Venus and Mars to be Earth like and/or try to make life that's better adapted to whatever stable environment we can give them, especially if we van learn from whatever (possibly limited) life that might already be there. Solarpunk doesn't need to be just about living responsibility and happily on Earth, it can include using our technology for the good of spreading life everywhere else we can too, or discover and help any other life we can find

@clanmeademagruder9692 2 года назад

More people need to see this comment

@AndrewThoesen Год назад

Imagine having magic glowing rocks that convey nearly limitless energy and then… just not using the technology you’ve ALREADY DEVELOPED

@ZaXp10s0in 2 года назад

Saint Andrewism has amazing content and this collaboration has been amazing.

@NewhamMatt 2 года назад

There's some really fascinating stuff here, but it begs the question of funding. By decentralising away from government control, these infrastructures can't be funded by taxpayers. Do the co-ops sell the goods and services they provide, and if so, to whom? That would suggest there is still a market per se, even if it isn't one in the capitalist model. Any ideas on how the question of funding can be resolved?

@Lone-Lee 2 года назад

Maybe it's more like bartering. You share what you have more with other co-ops, and they inturn share with you what you need.

@AtheistEve 2 года назад

I think peer to peer trading is less of an issue than finding spaces that are free, accessible and will remain in the public domain. Pretty much every space around me is owned by someone who is not going to give access. Even as shops and houses remain empty, squatting would only work as a short-term and non-legal way of pressing abandoned property into use.

@8cupsCoffee 2 года назад

I agree. I wish I could believe that my hobby of plants and gardening would be valuable but my vegetable budget is a very small percentage of my overall expenses. Even if all food was free I would still have most of my expenses, health care, taxes, housing and transportation. I don’t want to grow rice in my backyard because it is extremely inefficient to decentralize that efficient system. I want to know what would be decentralized in order to make things better. In what way is centralized production making my life worse where decentralization would be a solution? Seems like the inefficiency would cause a rise in the cost and energy consumption.

@Bertydude 2 года назад

With Dogecoins

@rubysmith1564 2 года назад

In decentralized, socialized economies, many argue that money shouldn't exist. Communities would form co-ops, make decisions based on direct democracy and, especially as automation technology continues to improve, work will be seen as a civil service. Work helps your community, so you still gain from work. Housing, food, and healthcare would be free, and taxes wouldn't exist either since money wouldn't. Different communities with different resources would trade for the betterment of both communities, or donate surpluses to each other. Large projects like this are taken on by co-ops or groups of co-ops simply because it helps people.

@behr121002 2 года назад

As usual, thank you OCC! This is the first I have heard of 'Solarpunk', let alone its emergence as a movement. But I will say three words: I LOVE it! (and hope to hear more about in the coming months/years) I will definitely be checking it out and keeping up on its advance.

@dudebroswaggle5724 2 года назад

This is beautiful!! I know what rabbithole I'm diving down now. I gotta know more!

@leviathan4297 2 года назад

I love that solarpunk is becoming more popular :D

@SovereignSpartan 2 года назад

I love ideas like this and think this is a better outcome for humanity. I do wonder however when talking about airships, how do these communities develop the infrastructure to build a large airship. Who develops the blueprints. If the community has all those skilled individuals in it, where do they get educated, or how do we address the disparity between communities with differing education? How do they safety test and meet standards for emissions and reliability? If air travel is free, presumably more people will use it, then how do we manage air traffic without a government organization like the FAA? I think dismissing the importance of specialized multinational organizations (such as a blimp manufacturer) or government agencies to make sure some people's blimps aren't diesel-powered or armed is irresponsible. Another example is solar energy in general. I don't think a collective farming community has the technological know-how or infrastructure to develop solar panels. Even if they did, they would have to live in an area with the minerals and resources to produce solar panels in the first place (otherwise, they would need it shipped from a community that specializes in that). That means mining equipment, safety standards, so on and so forth. Socialism is clearly a better ethical alternative to capitalism, but that does not mean we need to dismiss the existence of specialized industries unless we want to forgo many modern conveniences. Maybe we have to do that to avoid a climate collapse, but I would work on a way to market that instead of treating it like a given. Edit: I almost forgot about semiconductors and processors. The current capital, personnel, and logistical investments necessary to build a fabrication plant are immense. That could be community or worker-owned, but it would be impossible to manage that industry without some sort of governing agency setting standards and documentation guidelines for electronics, let alone OSHA guidelines.

@dragon_1333 2 года назад

Generally anarchists subscribe to the idea of having federations of communities. The decisions are made locally for locals issues but when it’s an issue that involves the coordination of different communities then the decision in resolved federally.

@babymilksnatcher 2 года назад

I don't think there will be a hughe problem in countries like the US, Japan, China or France that have a long tradition of plan building and engineering.

@sarahm5872 2 года назад

Watching videos like this gets me excited and motivated!

@CMDR_Lani 2 года назад

This is my favorite video of yours. There's so much hope in this concept 😊 Thank you for sharing!

@meandyousomeofusfortwo 2 года назад

I love your videos and production style, but climate change gives me a lot of anxiety so i cant bring myself to watch most of them. This one was very refreshing and I appreciate it, many people have never heard of solarpunk and this is a perfect introduction covering the many many depths of information that it includes. It's always nice to see content focusing on solutions rather than the problems. thank you for this!!

@Dan-zc3ou 2 года назад

This video and this new concept that i knew nothing about almost brought me to tears by how much hope it brought me

@stevanstankoviii-2989 2 года назад

Solarpunk art just makes me happy

@luukbrekelmans6020 2 года назад

I really hope this video blows up. Is there anything we can do as individuals right now to get the ball rolling?

@OdinsSage 2 года назад

I'm so excited you've covered a topic I've loved for so long!

@SonoraD. 2 года назад

OMG I’m hooked! Found the vision that I was looking for. Thanks for making me more hopeful!

@Thelango99 2 года назад

This would be fairly difficult to implement in the far north where the sun is FAR weaker. Fission would be a good solution though.

@MyKharli 2 года назад

100 times more nuclear reactors , what could possibly go wrong unless your a believer in the legendary but never seen safe reactor and its waste products relying on a stable civilisation for thousands of years ...who would really bet on that ?

@lucasgruber8509 2 года назад

I feel like the actual solution is to work smarter, not harder. If you live in a place that can't be reasonably sustained, then you probably shouldn't live there. Sure, you can pop up nuclear reactors, or people can condense around sources of renewable energy, like rivers for hydroelectric dams. Communities also need to spread out more evenly and become self sufficient. Consumerism and hyperconsumption has created lifestyles that are ridiculously complicated and wasteful. People need to readjust to simpler lives with less technology and consumption.

@Thelango99 2 года назад

@@MyKharli Our entire country could be powered by like three to four reactors...

@Thelango99 2 года назад

@@lucasgruber8509 That would mean people has to reduce their standards of living... that is not happening lol. People are already protesting windmills, can't imagine what they would do if this happened.

@lucasgruber8509 2 года назад

@@Thelango99 I think there will be a snapping point when people will no longer have a choice in that respect. Unfortunately, that will be far too late and irrevocable damage will have been done to the current populations/ecosystems of Earth. It will be a simpler and more sustainable way of life, though. I imagine supermarkets for food wi be gone, and communities will have to grow their own food. The United States can accomplish amazing things. When you look at how much food was produced during World War 2 and the amount of women that stepped up to work in the factories, it truly is amazing. It just needs requires the country to be on the same page. I know, it sounds ridiculous. But when things reach their worst possible point, I think the government will be able to organize the population and create sustainable communities. Things like that are honestly pretty fluid among party lines. After all, nobody wants to die. Can you imagine our overweight population actually living out a mad max scenario?

@pongop 2 года назад

This is awesome! I'm going to check out the other videos from both your channels now. Thank you!

@Lalaithlen 2 года назад

many of your videos make me cry, the mix of hope and dispair flows through me

@bschmok27 2 года назад

This video - and the St Andrewism one about solarpunk which I saw a couple months ago - brought me to tears. Thank you for helping me feel hopeful about the future again! This is a beautiful vision, merging care for the planet with radical care for human beings

@christill 2 года назад

I hadn’t thought about airships before. Definitely an interesting idea with a lot of possibilities. I’ve thought a lot about slow travel like sleeper trains and coaches, but this seems like the missing piece.

@UNSCPILOT 2 года назад

And the veiws from a nice, gently cruising Airship are probably wonderful, given you way more time to soak it in and even get some fresh air (without dangerous decompression)

@Abedchess Год назад

And also, very impractical. Considering any single bird can destroy your airship. It is too fragile.

@tsjoencinema Год назад

@@Abedchess Lot of windy places in the world. Blimps will never be practical in those areas.

@futebolguy84 2 года назад

Thanks for the video. You put together a lot of different concepts I'm very familiar with and tie them together with a core logic that makes them even more compelling.

@MrThelemonrose 2 года назад

I love St Andrewism, I have seen almost all of his videos. It's amazing you managed to collaborate together! I love this, I am trying to get to be implimenting this in our lives as much as we possibly can. Thank you for the video, keep up the hope and the good work!

@Aermydach 2 года назад

Interesting. Though, solarpunk just seems like Peramaculture (originally permanent agriculture which quickly shifted to permanent culture) with a sun theme.

@TYsdrawkcaB 2 года назад

THANK YOU SO MUCH! THIS IS SO HELPFUL! I’M GONNA SEND THIS TO EVERYONE I CAN!

@mskitty666 2 года назад

Thankyou so much for this video Solar punk sounds like the perfect blend between permaculture visions for the future and tecnoical solutions

@toyotaprius79 2 года назад

Amazing crossover, psyched to see Andrew!

@funkystrunk9228 2 года назад

Great video and such an interesting concept! It's so nice to see positive innovative ideas like these :)

@Piggyinahat 2 года назад

I watched both your and Andrewism's video and this is perfect! These advices are simple, yet efficient and doable, goals are realistic and understandable. Love your work!

@nickallbritton3796 2 года назад

like i said on st andrewism's channel i'm glad to see two of my favorite channels working together. and i want to say that gives me hope for the future. that those of us likeminded can all put aside our pride and goals and see the bigger picture that our goals don't need to be set aside but just put to a common purpose. use your strengths to help each other people. stay safe comrades

@miketacos9034 2 года назад

This is genuinely exciting because we can do it today. Even a little garden can be a window into a solarpunk world.

@iwasntreadyforitall 2 года назад

I just discovered solarpunk a couple months ago and it's been inspiring me so much! It's awesome to see this video and know the movement/change is spreading. I truly believe that humanity is capable of creating a solarpunk world, we all just have to take little steps towards truth and justice in our day to day lives.

@kevintouchet7134 Год назад

Wow, I just looked your videos. What your talking about is so beautiful and motivating ideas ! It bring a really positive vision of future and a goal ! Thank you for sharing !

@mhdm 2 года назад

Of all the gas stove alternatives you've missed the most practical and efficient: induction stove. Also, does a bright solarpunk future include plentiful and easily available electricity? Could be worth a follow up video. And if that's the case, where are the solar panels in the solarpunk imagery?

@NeonNion 2 года назад

Yep. Also it's not exactly practical to heat food outside and having to rely on weather to make food. Besides, such system would only works in sunny areas.

@gaeriefire2762 2 года назад

i’ve been studying to hopefully become a biotech/botanical scientist, i wanna work towards a future that looks like this

@Alepfi5599 Год назад

Love the hopeful tune and optimism, I needed that.

@loturzelrestaurant Год назад

Savonius wind turbine may be worth looking into. Could this be how Solarpunkt comes true?

@unusuallylargecrab9297 2 года назад

Question to the community regarding sorer punk airships: in this future how would we deal with essential products produced internationally; what if someone in Hawaii needs insulin produced in Australia?

@chefofzen 2 года назад

You do realize Helium isn't renewable, right? For those free airships

@daveharrison84 2 года назад

If you have nuclear fusion power then helium is a byproduct.

@JSHADOWM 2 года назад

3:38 an ecological society would never, ever, EVER bother with a flying bus. so wasteful, under any system capable of producing it. Eco is light rail systems: steel on steel, overhead cabling, usable under current solar tech, sustainable with a few upscalings and upgrades.

@Cibershadow2 2 года назад

Rail is better for quick and not wasteful logistics, but airships may be less wasteful (no need to set down rail) albeit slower

@CarlosMcKnight 2 года назад

Great things coming from you both! Love it!!!!!!

@jakehealthx 2 года назад

Wow, This is such a compelling video. Thank you!

@enatp6448 2 года назад

A world that is "... lush, beautiful, and caring..." Count me in.

@kuryamtl 2 года назад

I love St Andrewism and loved his video on Solarpunk, so I am so happy to see this.

@aptorres01 2 года назад

Great wrk guys thank you

@sharkwaffle1582 2 года назад

I'm currently in the process of writing an urban fantasy story with strong solarpunk undertones. However, one of the leading advocates for environmentalism comes from an unexpected background: a mobster-turned-CEO (aka an actual supervillain) who views sustainability as an investment, and uses cutthroat business practices to ensure that corporations such as the oil industry are overthrown to make way for renewables such as bioplastics and clean energy. I'm sure he's going to be a very controversial character given that he is the antithesis to what the solarpunk movement truly stands for, but I thought that it was too interesting a character concept to give up.

@gray4robot 2 года назад

I can say without a doubt that Solarpunk has always been my aesthetic. Thank you for giving me a word for it.

@sotiris2273 2 года назад

I... really want to be an airship pilot... makes me happy just thinking about it

@earthling_parth 2 года назад

Woah, I'd never heard of Solarpunk before this. Thanks OCC ♥️

@layniiicakes1643 2 года назад

Just found your channel the other day and watched a bunch of your videos, I love your content!! I was so excited to see you cover this topic ^_^ lovely video

@danielsan901998 2 года назад

The ad from chobani is a reason why i am sceptical of solarpunk, the function of advertisement is to promote capitalist consumption. According to Fisher, capitalist realism has so captured public thought that the idea of anti-capitalism no longer acts as the antithesis to capitalism. Instead, it is deployed as a means for reinforcing capitalism. This is done through media which aims to provide a safe means of consuming anti-capitalist ideas without actually challenging the system. Punk is the same, products critical with capitalism selled by capitalism because they don't see anti-capitalism as a danger, the moment when a viable movement is detected all liberalism is dropped and the state use the monopoly of violence to jail activists accused of eco-terrorism.

@zachweyrauch2988 2 года назад

ya man youre 100% correct. It was nice of you to explain that for folks who might otherwise be more trusting than you should be online.

@coololi07 2 года назад

The cooption of radical ideas shouldnt make us hesitant of them, but makes it ever the more important to make sure these ideas actually materialise in our actions and practice. The goal of liberal cooption is to distort anti-capitalist ideas into solely that, just ideas (and some aesthetics thrown in), this is where it was very successful with punk. I think here Our Changing Climate and Saint Andrewism are trying to ground solarpunk into real solutions, although not the final answers, for this very reason.

@francisrobindaine-duchesne6095 2 года назад

It's very a beautiful ideal and I love the philosophy and the aesthetic of it. However they are a lot of blind spots in it and I think a more organized and centralized society can still be relevant is some areas, of course outside of the capitalism realm. It all looks so green and lush, like it's set in a subtropical/tropical/mediterranean climate and it doesn't answer everything from what I see. I live in Quebec, a canadian province where it snows and freezes 5 months of the year. I'm very close to nature and hike many times a week, but the nature is only green in summer. Here we have the luck of having a State owned electric company that also has the monopoly on electric production. We enjoy all the comforts of the American way of life, but for very cheap electricity. We heat our homes with electricity, air condition them with electricity, ovens are electric, and luckily we can ban gasoline and diesel vehicles in the near future and rely entirely on electric cars, trucks, trains and buses. But, you didn't hear the best part, 100% of our electricity is green energy and we have so much of it that we sell it to the US. 96% from hydroelectric dams and 4% from wind and solar energy. It provides for 8,5 million people and we sell extra to the US. We closed our only nuclear power plant in 2013, closed our only oil power plant in the early 2000's and now it's all clean and green. Here winters are a big part of our identity and of our challenges. We're growing more than enough food to sustain ourselves, but a lot of fresh fruits and veggies have to be imported from Florida and California in the winter. Yet there are more and more greenhouses that now grow strawberries and tomatoes in winter. They consume a lot of energy, but it's all electric. So for me, a social-democracy/socialist society that isn't all decentralized seems to be ideal for a society that needs organization on a large scale.

@weggis10 2 года назад

Great stuff, the only negative thing is closing your only nuclear plant, as nuclear energy is absolutely necessary for a green future on a world wide basis!

@francisrobindaine-duchesne6095 2 года назад

@@weggis10 Well, 96% of our electricity comes from hydroelectric dams, so closing the nuclear power plant doesn't bother me, it was too expensive for what it brought to the grid. On the other hand I agree with you that it should be developed a lot more to replace coal and gas power plants in the rest of the world.

@enatp6448 Год назад

According to the American presidential candidate and environmental lawyer, Robert Kennedy Jr, nuclear power is not only incredibly expensive the risk to benefit ratio is staggering.

@francisrobindaine-duchesne6095 Год назад

@@enatp6448 If you want to have a proper opinion on nuclear energy go read the data provided by UNSCEAR it’s a United Nations committee like the IPCC but for the effects of nuclear energy. I wouldn’t base my opinion on the words of a politician.

@enatp6448 Год назад

@@francisrobindaine-duchesne6095 I think the fact that he is an Environmental Lawyer and has had to do research in order to defend cases in court is quite credible

@psukebariah3435 2 года назад

Thank you...this is the kind of vision we need to work for. And realize is possible if we work for it.

@zygarlio9885 2 года назад

I'm glad to find this video. I hope more lads finds this video and gain hope for a better future

@o0Avalon0o 2 года назад

I love it. Put out that positivity y'all!

@brittanyfriedman5118 2 года назад

based and hope-pilled

@psid9907 2 года назад

Superb video on a superb topic with a great collab. Subbed.

@nix8666 2 года назад

This is such an amazing idea that I very much want to be a reality. Thank you for sharing this

@raquetdude 2 года назад

Arcosanti was / is a beautiful design for how solar punk can function in rural / remote areas. It’s the start of arcology designs.

@dxWizardx 2 года назад

I would love a future like this, let's make it happen.

@MyKharli 2 года назад

the opposite is happening , CO2 and other GH gases are accelerating .

@dxWizardx 2 года назад

@@MyKharli Unfortunately that is the case.

@aganib4506 2 года назад

People are seeing the collapse of the current economy, but we see an opportunity to accelerate the solarpunk vision for our future and our descendants.

@nadia.lewis. 2 года назад

Thank you for this solar punk intro! Jazzed to check out Saint Andrewism. ☀️✨☀️✨💕😎

@Stitchlips2000 Год назад

legit this video brought me to tears. That kind of future sounds lovely

@Darth_Bateman 2 года назад

Did anybody else watch this and get excited?

@arjuscarlet55555 2 года назад

The solarpunk world seems like a paradise.❤️

@goodboiadvsp3297 2 года назад

Thank you for making this video which I was not knowledgeable or skilled enough to make

@JordanDS1 2 года назад

This video made me cry from frustration like I just cant keep living the way we have been, it makes me sick

@dittoisdone 2 года назад

one of the animations is literally an ad for orange juice.

@13bunnylove13 2 года назад

Now how do we make this reality? We live in a world where people can't even wear a mask to protect a stranger. Until most big corps give up control/go down, this will never happen, or it will be an expensive lifestyle despite it not costing whoever has the money and privilege and rights to sell it. That goes for the ships and boats and everything, no? I want this world so freaking badly, but no one else around me does, because content. Besides, most people will lose their jobs for this society to come about, it's not gonna happen. I live in Canada and the Green party is the closest government party I can think of that holds these ideals, and they rarely even win a single seat. If everyone doesn't do it, it won't work, and unfortunately, we are running out of time.

@SolarpunkLife 2 года назад

Yes, thank you for making this!

@hansnana3336 2 года назад

This is exactly our goal! Towards a better future 🤗

@fosterkane686 2 года назад

Solar punk! I love that term!

@PBUdotWorld 2 года назад

love this, many people think we can either have technology or nature why can't we have both ?. technology that flows with nature ? sounds like how its supposed to be.

@alexbuilder6983 2 года назад

Those animations are awesome!

@PeppermintCupcakes 2 года назад

Yesssss!!! Thank you for talking about solarpunk it is not well known yet

@cembora4849 2 года назад

Solar oven is romantic idea. I dont live in single house with backyard so also many poor/middle class live in urban area.

@AnkurShah 2 года назад

Excellent video as always! A human and eco-centric future is inevitable in the long term most likely after a collapse of the global economy in the short term.

@suryanarayan2032 2 года назад

Not inevitable, a lot of work needs to be done, but it isn't impossible. Come what may, capitalism cannot be a part of it

@AnkurShah 2 года назад

@@suryanarayan2032 definitely a lot of work needs to be done. What I meant is we as a species will evolve to develop human and eco centric because that is the only future which will work in the long term (perhaps decades from now)

@spare9434 2 года назад

absolutely! this is what have have been working, living to help build.

@tankfire20 2 года назад

THE COLLAB I DIDNT KNOW I NEEDED. POGGERS!

@hejda9513 2 года назад

love the airships. I like the concept of a more eco friendly future although not as in the pictures and none of the relevant solutions were named in the video. Anyways its a good “feel-good” video👍

@Abedchess Год назад

Airships are very impractical. They are too fragile, any bird can destroy the airship. Not to mention wear and tear, turbulence, ect... This is just a dream.

@lordmelbury116 2 года назад

The maker spacers sound like an interesting idea, as I have been wondering if these sort of community spaces may be helpful with some of my dream projects. The revival of airships sound interesting, as I have sometimes wondered if it is possible to revive airships.