- no cars
- buildings you can easily climb to the top via stairs in 2 minutes
- everyday resources in plain sight, not obscured
- majority of land area is water-permeable
The People’s Republic of China manufactured over 95% of the solar photovoltaic modules.
“This will never happen because its a utopian scam.” - Guy who’s spending billions to make sure it never will.
This is just what happens if you don’t constantly spray weed killer and only plant some non native grass bullshit.
Probably don’t want so much of it up again concrete structures, roots can do a lot of damage to it, but otherwise it’s a pretty low effort aesthetic.
It would probably be really bad for the concrete on that bridge to be this overgrown. This is kind of a pet peeve of mine. You don’t get “green utopia” by planting plants on buildings, you get a maintenance nightmare. Those roots are going to wreck the structure.
The one with the solar panels reminds me of a Tiktok I saw from China. They put up a solar farm in the desert. They have to clean the panels once in a while and that water combined with the shade from the panels made it possible for grass and plants to grow around the panels. At first they sent people to cut down the grass once in a while but then they discovered that it was easier just to let sheep graze under the panels.
I LOVE INTEGRATING PERMACULTURE WITH POWER GENERATION
We have a heap of solar farms here that are also farming sheep. Pretty neat dual use for the land. Chuds are fuming though about putting solar panels over agricultural land, even though the land is pretty hilly and not really suited to farming anything but livestock
This reminds me of the story where China reintroduced almost extinct wild horses to Xinjian to combat desertification:
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I like this depicted with cities much more than the other aesthetic that just presents white people as farm owners where the labourers are replaced with robots.
it’s socialism with chinese characteristics that leads to this
Given China’s very successful and deliberate campaign to reforest cities, this checks out
Green is Red
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Shame that solarpunk is dominated by anarchists. Seriously, all solarpunk fans I met were sympathetic to anarchism
(quoting because I disagree with the removal, am ancom, whatcha gonna do, mods)
I agree, it would be really cool to see Marxists better represented in the genre too.
The reason you like it is because of the anarchists, not in spite of it. Most anarchist theory has to do with ecology and anthropology.
There’s a book called Seeing Like a State which goes into detail about this. States don’t like nature, they want neat orderly things which are easy to plan from the top down.
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A world made with the existing ecosystem in mind. Anarchy.
