Solarpunk
Aesthetic and movement envisioning sustainable, equitable, tech-integrated futures. Contrast to cyberpunk dystopia: hopeful ecological futures. Solar panels, green architecture, community tech. Post-scarcity through renewable energy and cooperation. Decolonial, feminist, anti-capitalist politics. Art, fiction, and activism creating alternatives. Critique of both primitivism and techno-utopianism. Practical utopianism building better worlds. Afrofuturism, Indigenous futurism as related movements.
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