The Imaginarium of a Solarpunk Architect
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The Imaginarium of a Solarpunk Architect
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Re: The Imaginarium of a Solarpunk Architect
#2Very cool, but I don’t want to dwell on all the bugs one would swallow cycling through one of these cities.
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#3Very cool, but I don’t want to dwell on all the bugs one would swallow cycling through one of these cities.
I'd actually have to imagine the bug count wouldn't be that much worse than a typical city, replete with flies and mosquitoes from the abundance of humans and human food waste to feed on.
If anything the bug problem might be slightly improved since the ecology would be friendlier to things that eat bugs, such as frogs, lizards, and bats.
Of course, then you've got the problem of frogs and lizards getting into your house. And, ultimately, things that like to eat frogs and lizards, like snakes.
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#4Very cool, but I don’t want to dwell on all the bugs one would swallow cycling through one of these cities.
That seems like a small cost to pay to live in such harmonious places.
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#5This is a beautiful reimagining of a different way to do cities. We need more of this in the world right now.
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#6Very cool, but I don’t want to dwell on all the bugs one would swallow cycling through one of these cities.
If you're swallowing bugs while cycling that means you're probably mouth breathing. It's pretty challenging to convert to strict nasal breathing, but it's worth it and a side benefit is bugs aren't a big deal if you're wearing something on your eyes.
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#7Apparently "solarpunk" is now the zietgiest. Here's another interesting one:
https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/drawing-pictures-of-cities
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#8Very cool, but I don’t want to dwell on all the bugs one would swallow cycling through one of these cities.
Bugs are not really problem if they have amble places to live and gather nutrition and so on.
We have a wild garden, and people often ask if there are not bugs everywhere, and tell us they like grass to keep the bugs away. Well quite contrary - our findings are, that in our wild garden, bugs are around the plants, in the plants, but they are not are problem in the spaces we have created for ourself at all. I think people have misunderstood why insect swarm.
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#9In many contexts, solarpunk is related to anarcho-communism and gift-economies. It can be difficult to see how a solarpunk-like society could sustainably grow directly out of our current economic system.
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#10This is the first time I hear the term "solarpunk". So this seems to encompass visions of an optimistic future when exploitation of nature, pollution, climate change etc. And strikingly, looking up the definition made me feel an almost juvenile excitement about an idea again which I haven't experienced in a long time. That made me realize that most contemporary visions of the near(er) future seem so bleak and dreadful in comparison. But, if we paint our future as this thoroughly unattractive place, then what motivation remains to make progress?