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I have been disappointed with Solarpunk as a movement, aestheric, and literary genre.

Indeed. Solarpunk enthusiasts are by and large insufferable, being people who get off on the aesthetic of sustainably solving problems but don't ever feel like doing the hard math of planning on how to maintain a technological society while doing it. It's as if steampunk cosplayers were a voting bloc.



A lot of the problem is that when the lefties arrived, it went from artistic and creative to a really shoddy, greyed out political shadow of itself.

It was promising for a while.




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