Anon09/09/25, 08:03No.16779824
>Is a solarpunk future feasible?""Yes"" quote unquote, but a lot of things would have to radically change about how we generate, store, distribute, and commodify energy.. And property for that matter. I also think reliable commercial/industrial access to space would also be somewhat necessary. Your question is basically, "would it be feasible if everything was completely different?" Which, yeah, hypothetically.The problem with a lot of futurism ideas is they don't take into account the fact that so much of the technology we use, invent, innovate upon, etc.. Is driven by a poorly understood combination of consumer use and government spending. It's the idea that you could build a flawlessly effective & safe teleporter and people wouldn't use it due to nobody being able to prove that "it doesn't just kill you and make a perfect copy" (which is fair), while every even vaguely transportation-adjacent industry would be spending everything they had saying how awful it was.Granted, you also the problem in this thread where people think, for whatever reason, that technology just isn't ever going to get any better.
Cars, phones, computers, all of these things used to be exorbitant technologies only used for military or industrial purposes until they weren't anymore. It took the phone 60 years to become a common household device. I'm not going to say there isn't a reality where some strange development happens and solar becomes way better than fossil fuels.