Solarpunk is a delightful aesthetic (green == good!), and I think that there *are* things we can do to make that aesthetic viable (and at least kind of sustainable), but doing it well requires a lot of careful thought and expertise! You can't evaluate environmental impact by vibes alone.
@docvivileandra.bsky.socialWhich is why my problem with Solarpunk isn't that it is insufficiently radical, it's just... bad.
Like, 99% of the people contributing to it know nothing about civil engineering or agricultural science or ecology and just think "nature is when green".
Why are there trees on top of buildings?!?!
