In this world of pandemics, questionable governments and questionable choices in computing when we need to embrace degrowth, I find comfort at the moment in helping other folk when I can.
A bit like the metaphor of a butterfly causing a small flap that turns into a hurricane.
You never know quite how far small deeds can go. Help others when you can, it can be just a message of support. Or helping folks on to here.
It's all I can do. Rebel with small acts of kindness.
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"Rund 20 Prozent der 12- bis 19-jährigen Menschen in Deutschland haben einer Studie zufolge noch nie vom #Klimawandel gehört. Auch ein Sechstel der Altersgruppe 18 bis 19 könne mit dem Begriff nichts anfangen, heißt es in einer am Dienstag veröffentlichten Befragung des Internationalen Zentralinstituts für das Jugend- und Bildungsfernsehen, das zum Bayerischen Rundfunk gehört."
@_RyekDarkener_ Das mag so erscheinen, wenn man Social media konsumiert, vor allem auf Riesenplattformen.
Aber es täuscht: immens viele Menschen tun sich zusammen, leben neue Entwürfe, probieren Utopien. Demonstrieren gegen Rechts. Aber Algorithmen verstecken sie. Machtgeile übertönen sie.
Zum Einstieg empfehle ich #hopepunk#solarpunk oder die Arbeit von @kathhayhoe zum Klima. Verstärken wir doch solche Stimmen! @Nike_Leonhard@stadt_land_erleben
How about a vision of a future worth fighting for? How about a realistic take on the world we're living in but with a pathway out of the mess?
Someday, they'll decide you're ready for such things. Probably not until readers create another breakaway success like KSR's Ministry for the Future or Becky Chambers' Monk & Robot.
Six weeks left to submit your story to IMAGINE 2200!
Climate fiction needs your voice. Grist’s Imagine 2200 climate fiction contest celebrates diverse visions of a hopeful climate future, and it’s open for submissions right now until June 24, 2024!
Win one of 5 print copies of my Halfway to Better solarpunk short story collection and/or a set of greeting cards with Eddie Spaghetti's linocut print-art used for the covers!
GIVEAWAY ENDS JUNE 9th 2024
OPEN TO US/CANADA only for shipping costs.
SUPER COOL: My story will be in a #climate exhibit in NYC!
THE CLIMATE IMAGINARIUM: a community center for climate & culture (galleries, exhibits, performances, events) that respond to the climate crisis with visions for hope & justice.
There'll be a wall of stories w/QR codes to download & read!
It makes me happy that there are academics studying hopeful climate storytelling. (I'm setting up an interview for my participation in the second study of this type)
I need some new science fiction to read, who has some suggestions? I don't like military sci-fi. For reference, my favorite series is the Expanse, I also enjoyed Scalzi's Collapsing Empire, I love Robert Charles Wilson's books. I mostly enjoy space operas and unique stories about technology, for example I really liked the recent book Mountain in the Sea about AI and intelligent octopus. Suggestions from the awesome Bookstodon community? @bookstodon#Bookstodon#Scifi#ScienceFiction
@Jennifer@bookstodon The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells might be an option. It’s a story of a security cyborg in an interstellar civilization, learning to be a person and form relationships with others. It’s lighter, more comedic, but it’s hard scifi that shares the Expanse’s #hopepunk theme, of the world having bad actors in it, but most people just being good folks doing their best. And deals (lightly) with questions of sentience and personhood, like Mountain.
Gandalf quote (from the movie, not the book) that I find very #HopePunk indeed.
"Some believe that it is only great power that can hold evil in check. But that is not what I've found. I found it is the small things. Every day deeds by ordinary folk that keeps the darkness at bay."
What's that quote about not doubting that a handful of committed people can change things for the better? Maybe this isn't affecting the entire world, but it sure is affecting this corner of it, and hopefully it's inspirational to other municipalities and regions across #Canada
Zugegeben, die woke Geschwätzigkeit in #BeckyChambers Erstlingsroman ist nervig, auch das lineare Erzählen und der oberlehrerinnenhafte Erklärmodus. Sind wir jetzt weichgeklopft und gehören wir auch zu den Guten? Das widerstrebt wohl jedem kritischen Geist. Richtige Pronomen machen noch keine Literatur. Muss #Hopepunk immer so naiv daherkommen?
Dennoch, einige Ideen sind spannend, also lese ich weiter im Buch #DerLangeWegZuEinemKleinen ZornigenPlaneten (2014)
"Benjamín Maldonado is a 21 year old Chilean doing his BA Cultural Anthropology thesis on solarpunk. He’s created a really interesting survey to try and take the temperature of the scene. It only takes about 5 minutes to complete and he’s said he’ll share the findings.
In case you missed it, my #solarpunk short story collection is now available in print and ebook!
These hopeful #climatefiction stories take you from the bottom of the sea to the towers of a bot-filled city, from sparkling labs to flooded lighthouses, all imagining futures halfway to a better world.
"Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We’ll need writers who can remember freedom — poets, visionaries — realists of a larger reality."
@thejacenallen@kmmfoo@jf_718
I genuinely applaud Jeff's optimism. I've cultivated a lot of Biden-critical voices in my circle. The best of us include meaningful calls to action.
We can also de-emphasize the celebrity tier national races while reinvigirating interest in state and local progressive governance including small stuff like councils and school boards, because it isn't small.