“Not only is SolarPunk going very mainstream – it’s being seen in a very positive, promising light”:

SolarPunk: ‘just the antidote we need for climate doomism’ – Sidmouth Solarpunk

“Solarpunk rejects climate “doomerism” and shows what our collective future could look like if we heal our relationship with the natural world.

“Far from Star Trek’s “full luxury space communism,” where humans race across galaxies via endless sources of energy, the technology in solarpunk is imminently achievable. In the anthology Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias, science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson describes this genre as rejecting “the inevitability of the machine future.” Instead it asks, “What is the healthiest way to live? What is the most beautiful?” Rather than Elon Musk’s tent cities on Mars, these fictional worlds “cobble together aspects of the postmodern and the paleolithic, asserting that we might for very good reasons choose to live in ways that resemble in part the ways of our ancestors.” “

How Solarpunk Fiction Defies Dystopian Doomerism ❧ Current Affairs

“The monumental mismatch between existential urgency and underwhelming responses has created a sort of valley, which science fiction storytellers have filled with many different visions of our climate plight and how we might respond, locally and globally. One major reaction is stubborn hopefulness”:

Solarpunk stories: “stubborn hopefulness” – Sidmouth Solarpunk

“Here are five staples of solarpunk reading to fight those feelings of climate doom”:

Solarpunk fiction everyone should read | Blog | dailycal.org

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