#solarpunk article

We're releasing today another bonus clip from behind the Patreon paywall. This originally was produced by Christina as a bonus clip to follow the early release of S5E5; supporters on Patreon at the Companion tier and higher gain access to bonus content that is either excerpted from episodes or prompted by their content every other week.

Here is the original description: "I didn't have any extra clips from the interview with the organizers of The Solarpunk Conference. Instead, here's me (Christina) reading my contribution to The Solarpunk Conference Journal that was published after last year's conference. Enjoy!

His point was quite simple: scientifically speaking, global capitalism “has made the depletion of resources so rapid, convenient and barrier-free that ‘earth-human systems’ are becoming dangerously unstable in response.” Therefore, he argued, the only scientific thing to do is revolt! Movements, not just individuals, are critical. What is required is action and thinking that do not fit within the dominant capitalist culture; and, said Werner, this is a matter not of opinion, but of geophysical dynamics.

I highly recommend this read if you are interested in de-centering the human narrative of Earth’s past, present, and future, in favor of something that captures the complex networks of beings and actions that create our world. 

Donna Haraway’s writing about the term Cthulucene as an alternative to Anthropocene or Capitalocene is frankly thrilling to me as a solarpunk. I am interested in reimagining how we create our world using language; who/what does [this word] center? Who/what does [that word] exclude? The linguistics of a social movement or revolution may appear trivial, but Haraway demonstrates how they are actually essential. 

Let’s hone our language into something that can, to the best of its ability, widen our perspectives past the anthropos, past the human narrative.

We must think!