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Programmer, hacker, #solarpunk, educator, activist and a wannabe writer fascinated by how technology is portrayed in culture - and how that affects human lives.
Co-author of @SolarpunkPrompts #podcast , exploring realistic stories of our climate future with all their traumas and hopes.
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Background illustration CC BY-SA 4.0 The Lemonaut
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In response to this postThink about it: we are about to have a hard century and there is simply no way of "fixing" the planet climate in our lifetimes.
The best we can do is to create a new shape of civilization which will set a stable course towards sustainability and keep it there for decades, if not centuries.
We are planting trees we know we won't see becoming forests within our lifespans.
We need to see our struggle as a context for this better world.
Otherwise it's just escapism into a fairy tale.
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In response to this postThis is why a lot of our @SolarpunkPrompts are set against an otherwise dystopian, cataclysmic scenery - we need to see the hope in the refugee camps and among people fighting pandemics.
Dreaming about sustainable cities of tomorrow with no set path towards them is no different than reading a fairy tale.
It entertains, but hardly inspires to take any action, to believe that today's struggle makes any sense.
I want stories which inspire, which allow us to applaud our daily sacrifices.
Think about it: we are about to have a hard century and there is simply no way of "fixing" the planet climate in our lifetimes.
The best we can do is to create a new shape of civilization which will set a stable course towards sustainability and keep it there for decades, if not centuries.
We are planting trees we know we won't see becoming forests within our lifespans.
We need to see our struggle as a context for this better world.
Otherwise it's just escapism into a fairy tale.
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I recently realized that a lot of the accusations of #solarpunk as drama-less, boring #utopia might stem from a simple misunderstanding:
Solarpunk's hard-won #hope makes sense only in the context of the #ClimateChange #trauma , acknowledging it and processing it, with the bright colors contrasting with the despair all around it.
To talk about Solarpunk we need to talk about the coming changes especially if they terrify us.
Otherwise the term has no meaning.
#climate #climateFiction #writing
This is why a lot of our @SolarpunkPrompts are set against an otherwise dystopian, cataclysmic scenery - we need to see the hope in the refugee camps and among people fighting pandemics.
Dreaming about sustainable cities of tomorrow with no set path towards them is no different than reading a fairy tale.
It entertains, but hardly inspires to take any action, to believe that today's struggle makes any sense.
I want stories which inspire, which allow us to applaud our daily sacrifices.
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Tags: #solarpunk #utopia #hope #climatechange #trauma #climate #climatefiction #writing
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In response to this postI will need to make a new rule, "no AI will be used to promote or organize any of the events I'm taking part in".
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I was invited to give a talk on #solarpunk and climate protests at the University of Warsaw next Saturday (11th of Jan).
I wrote a summary of my talk and linked to the page containing (among other things) a lot of my essays on why using AI for climate communication is counterproductive. The same page also has a lot of intentionally-created Creative Commons illustrations to use.
Yet, the students organizing the talk decided to AI-generate a banner for my talk.
Eh xD
I will need to make a new rule, "no AI will be used to promote or organize any of the events I'm taking part in".
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