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2 months agoHard to get a solid sense with a lot of projects, until you meet the actual people involved and get a clearer sense of where their focus and values are, and how well they’ve worked out the things they’re talking about. Also, smart contracts ≠ cryptocurrency, though it’s an understandably unsavory association. :-)
If you think of solarpunk as a future utopia that could (or could have) existed, that sounds about right.
If you think of it as attitudes/ways of life people can and do hold and act on, right now and whenever, whether we are pre-, post-, or during apocalypse, then its heft becomes clearer. For me the centers are the centering of and working cooperatively with life (including us human beans), the kind of social awareness and care that tends to go along with that, and appropriate tech (generally seeking/preferencing simplest thing that could work, most local, understandable & repairable. but not to the point of shooting ourselves in the foot).