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   Jules (afewbugs@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 21:13:55 JST Jules

   I've read a lot of #Solarpunk / #HopePunk fiction, it's a genre I enjoy, but I realise something I often find lacking in it is conflict - I think solarpunk sometimes gets conflated with #CozyFiction, and while cozy solarpunk like the #MonkAndRobot series is great in its own right I'd like to see more about people resolving differences of opinion.

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     Jules (afewbugs@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 21:13:53 JST Jules

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     Too often the premise of how the society or community works just seems to be accepted by everyone in the story, but I'd like to see more about people working out different ideas. Land sparing for wildlife via agricultural intensification or land sharing via permaculture? Veganism or traditional hunting? Energy descent or renewables? Everyone has their own bioreactor or regulation of potentially dangerous novel organisms? Resources to proven technologies or time and effort spent on innovation?

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     Jules (afewbugs@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 21:13:54 JST Jules

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     There's also some great writing out there about the conflict between people who want a better future and those who oppose them (#TheLostCause is another highly recommended book about this), but I'd like to see a lot more #Solarpunk stories about people who have different ideas of how to make a better future working that out together, in keeping with the idea that the community not the individual should be the protagonist of a solarpunk story.

     Arne Babenhauserheide repeated this.