Also want to remind everyone that there are definitely pro-zionist shill accounts on Lemmy. I’ve seen 'em here, I’ve seen 'em upvoted, I’ve seen mods refuse to remove their blatant misinformation. Be aware of this is what I’m saying, and don’t naively believe them. Their MO is usually something like “Well, the US has done it.” Yeah, no shit. Dissolve the US too.
Note that this is for depaving, and not golf course restoration, but a lot of it is still applicable.
Golf courses are actually pretty fucking easy to reclaim. They already have established surface drainage patterns and water sources. Disc the turf, replant what you want, and you’re good to go. Your biggest effort would be on weed management in the first few years, or any recontouring you want to do before you start.
They also already have access established for human use. You would want to break up sightlines on the golf course and associated trails so you make the whole place an animal trap.
We had a massively underutilized golf course next to our subdivision that shut down. Within a year or two nature moved back in and it was beautiful with a thick hedge between it and “civilization”. I’d go in there and see deer, and a variety of raptors on the regular. Then they ripped it all up for new homes all built in identical rows like army barracks.
Buy Nothing has made such a dramatically positive impact in my life. It’s simultaneously been a way to reduce waste and has been a great way to meet my neighbors.
While I think the article has the time-line and focus correct, it kind of glances over the fact that Solarpunk is one if not the only -punk suffix genres that can claim some legacy in the actual (anarchistic) punk movement, albeight or maybe especially because it does not really attempt to mimic the astethics of it.
Steampunk doesn’t even pretend this, and Cyberpunk was rather modeled on the astethics of 1980ties street-punks as seen by non-involved middle class sci-fi authors. I think only cypherpunks can somewhat claim an similar legacy of thought as Solarpunk can.
Is there somewhere I can read more about the anarchist history of the term? Also how is punk actually defined in this context? I have been confused about that for a while.
Gives some background on it and how it fits into the often called “lifestylist” anarchists that overlap strongly with the punk movement of the 1980ties and later.
Interesting but it barely touches on anarchism. Not sure this answers my question—unless the answer is that anarchists later gravitated towards this idea and were not involved at the start?
I don’t think there is a definite answer on this as I think the anarchists involved in the early phase of solarpunk intentionally avoided the term to not over-politizise it. But if you are aware of the concepts and jargon it is hard to not see it shine through here and there in most of the influential solarpunk texts.
@LibertyLizard - I think it was a bit the other way round. Solarpunk started as an idea. Just the "I'm tired of dystopian scifi. I want utopias that address pragmatic concerns and show us a way out of this current situation."
Then folks started to collate ideas on how to make that work and found that various anarchic philosophies already addressed it.
Agreed about the other genres. I think The Difference Engine might be steampunk’s only real claim to the suffix.
I’ve also seen an argument that the cyberpunk genre itself was punk because it pushed back on mainstream sci-fi of the time that had a theme of technology fixing everything, or better living through science. That cyberpunk made the argument that technology could change what we are, but it wouldn’t fix who we are, and it would be mostly used to consolidate power and exploit. There’s so much science fiction written that I really don’t have a sense of overarching themes at that scale, but if you buy that, then you could argue that the mainstream sci-fi was kind of doing the corporations’ work for them and that cyberpunk flipped the script.
I basically knew this was all going on but to see it all laid out like that, it’s so awful. We’re getting close to the scene in Minority Report where Tom Cruise walks through a mall and all the ads are targeted at him personally.
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