#ustopia

„Margaret Atwood once wrote that climate change is »everything change«.
(...) for solutions to happen, they must address everything that is changing.

Solarpunk seems to offer a multiplicity of, if not solutions, then ideas to begin addressing climate change via better ways of mitigating the worse effects of everything change. Solarpunk is the climb toward a better world that is realistic and possible.

Many think solarpunk is utopian, but utopian is "no place" and not reachable. A better word might be "ustopia," which Atwood coined; it refers to something non-binary (i.e., not dystopia or utopia) but something combining both of these ideas that we (us) can do together.

Another new concept is optopia, which refers to a more realistic version of a place we can reach, “the best possible world we can create.” Getting the opias out of the way, solarpunk takes place in multiple agencies:
art, architecture, music, fashion, technology, literature, and more, which sort of underline the everything part of ecological and climate changes.

It's a movement toward a better world in all aspects, building toward cleaner energy, more greenspaces, social justice, egalitarian ideas, and so much more. A degree of aesthetic is involved, but beneath it all is genuine concern for the well-being of everything and everyone.

The punk part of it refers to the fact that we have to fight the current status quo of fossil fuels and other fossil ideas every step of the way.“

Mary Woodbury via »Towards Solarpunk Futures«

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