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The conclusion was "this must be solarpunk" and I cannot emphasize how incorrect that is.

Whether or not this particular experimentation leads to less harmful man-made lighting, it isn't solarpunk.

Solarpunk is technology and infrastructure engineered to work in harmony with nature and community.

Changing nature to better fit human wants and needs is fundamentally human.

Every vegetable you've ever eaten is the product of humans changing nature to better fit human wants.

I don't know that bioluminescent plants are a function solution to anything and I'm sure there are a number if very valid reasons that utmost caution should be taken with their potential implementation, but there is nothing 'not in harmony with nature' about messing with plant genetics.

Thank paleoindigeous genetic engineers from mezo/South America for the existence or corn, for example:

Domesticated animals are because of humans changing nature to better fit our wants.

Literally half or more of the biomes on this planet are made by humans.

We are a terraforming species, just like elephants and ants and bison. Yes! Humans are not the only animals that terraform on Earth! But humans are certainly the ones that do it the most extensively and completely.

This can be used for ill, or it can be done toward mutual benefit, or it can be done to one benefits and the other is not adversely OR positively affected.

Bioluminescence may not harm the plants or other animals and creatures at all. It might harm. It might help, It might not do anything in particular.

Bioluminescence is used by mushrooms to attract bugs that then spread their spores. It's used by fish for camouflage, finding and attracting prey, as well as startling predators. It's used by fireflies to find a mate or attract prey. It's not unnatural at all.

Humans are a keystone species, not inherently parasitic or evil or destructive, for most of our history we had a very unique & beautiful &beneficial role in the ecosystem of this planet, we acted an ecological knowledge reservoir, learning, preserving & accumulating knowledge, & using that deep knowledge of the land to form very beneficial & mutual relationships with the land, many experts think that the average hunter gatherer actually had more knowledge accumulated than the average person in modern civilization

We used this knowledge to form a deeply symbiotic/mutual beneficiary relationship with other life forms, for example spreading their seeds of the best flowers to attract/help bees to create the healthiest, tastiest honey we would later eat, this would also attract many other beneficial pollinators & make flower & pollinator populations more vibrant & healthy, we would clear out competitive plants in order for edible, medicinal & other helpful plants to grow faster, healthier & more often, we would hunt herbivores that killed all these plants, we would spread the seeds of anti-parasitic plants to prevent parasites from attacking the plants, we even mastered controlled fires which helped clear dead wood & barriers that restricted growth in forests, we acted as “allies” to much of the life in the world, our deep knowledge, memory & constant learning gave us a unique, mutually beneficial & highly beneficial role in all ecosystems, which is why we spread to every continent

When giant ground sloths went extinct humans stepped in to preserve the avocado among other things that relied on the giant to survive, a mutualistic relationship between avocados & humans replaced the one between ground sloths & avocados

It also goes without saying that bioessentialism inherently can’t be trans inclusive no matter how hard you try. “All men including trans men—” probably not. “This is only a woman’s issue—” is it really? “Afabs only—” why? “All trans men are like—” what? what are they like? finish the sentence i dare you.

so, all athletes should immediately stop playing sports. construction workers, anyone with jobs that put them at risk, they need to find different employment. people with uteruses shouldn’t ever get pregnant, either. actually you know what? don’t enter a car or vehicle at all! and don’t even get me started on old people. what age do we think they should just give it up & throw in the towel? 50? 60? after that they become way too burdensome. it’s a problem.

They're the pickiest because they only eat things they can catch by plunging into at least six feet of water feet-first and are as close to their maximum carrying capacity as possible, to maximize calories-per-trip.

They're the Least Picky because so long as something fits those parameters, Osprey will go for it.

Over 500 years spent trying to cut down a whole trunk of human culture.