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[acesolaris]

A Collection on Solarpunk Fashion

Concept

@pepermintsolarpunk indentifies the tennents of solarpunk fashion as eco-friendliness, inclusive design, and personal significance, with the later addition of functionality

@punkofsunshine has a conversation about how aestethics reflect a movement and what that could mean for solarpunk art and fashion (read the reblogs please)

there is also this Conversation between @titleknown and @solar-sunnyside-up talking about how the aesthetics of solarpunk could/ should be more oriented torwards the 1950 instead of 1920 due to the social values at that time

Sewing patterns and inspiration

This website is full of free sewing patterns from plush toys to clothing that will automatically alter to your measurements

@practicalsolarpunk has a post on designing clothes for wheelchair users

@m34gs shares links to plus size shops (USA based)

@wastelesscafts shares a pattern for an vintage wrap top

#folk clothing on tumblr displays a wide array of folkfashion from literally all over the world

Materials

@wiisagi-maiingan talks about the problems of plastic made plant leather and avocates the revolution of the leather and fur indurstry instead

@probablyasocialecologist shared an article oft the NYT about the same topic

@punkofsunshine gives an overview about the problems of the modern fashion industry in their post Textiles: Agriculture, industry, couture, and exploitation

@wastelesscrafts talk about Fabrics and summer heat, which to use and which better to avoid

They also have this amazing beginners guide to fabric types

@practicalsolarpunk answers this ask about plastic clothes with an overview of the most common used fibres and their handling

Sustainability

@gowns shares a spreadshead of their research into slow fashion brands with prices and production processes

they also give an order of opeation for sustainable clothing when you get the urge to buy some new

@wastelesscrafts has a masterpost with sources about fast fashion and climate change

@fatmasc has a collection of videotutorials on repairing and mending clothing

@godlovesdykes has a list of ressources on historical sewing

@lovely-low-waster explains the problem with donated clothing to africa

@dropoutdaisy has this post on sewing on a budget

this is a guide to fabric thrifting

Blogs to follow

@wastelesscrafts is a tumblr dedicated to sewing and mending.... everything not just clothes, here is the intropost . Srsly, when in need always check this blog first!

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[punkofsunshine]

Rethinking solarpunk: Aesthetic being a reflection of ideals

Don’t get me wrong, I love the whole art nouveau thing, but I’d like to take a step back and analyze how the aesthetic should reflect the movement. While it is nice to have an end goal in mind, the message should be “We need to work together so the earth doesn’t become uninhabitable in our lifetime.” and not “Hey, pretty pictures of green cityscapes, but also here’s the message based around a few different political philosophies that you have to look into.”

In short I’m saying, we need to put the punk firmly in solarpunk so it reflects upon the movement as one with ideas and ideals as opposed to overly utopian in nature. A nice change would be moving away from cityscapes and focusing on architecture that feels handmade, adding in the punk principle of DIY into the aesthetic while also keeping the greenery would make something totally unique and reflect the movement better than the current iteration does. Changing the aesthetic would also drive home the point that we’re constantly evolving as a movement, constantly growing and changing.

As I’ve said before, with growth comes new challenges. If we want our message to be fully understood and not just ogled at because it’s bright and pretty, we need to make it easier to understand off the bat and not as easy to twist into something harmful where someone could say “If [X group] weren’t around, we could have this future!” Visuals are a powerful medium, we sincerely want them to reflect our intent as well as provide a message that we’re not going away, ever. So now, I ask you artists to rethink the future of this look and imagine one which is more akin to a cobbled together house with solar panels and a water pump out front as opposed to a green apartment complex in a retrofitted city. One of these is achievable in our lifetime and I know you know which one.

That’s all for today (tonight really) babes. This has been @punkofsunshine, have a good one and stay safe.

[huny-bun]

SolarPunk Clothes --- Pt1 Overall

As discussed in this post between @punkofsunshine and @wereallassbutts I think Solarpunk has great praxis and a blooming theory thats ever evolving, and we have art pieces that speak of the beauty of it.

But ultimately I think having a basis for Clothing Aesthetics to really drive what people could do or wear to help single one another is a great idea and I think very helpful when thinking about what kind if stuff we should use to show off beauty in textiles when art is allowed to bloom and be inspired by culture and the nature around us. Particularly with its ties back into community but also its utility for everyday work like gardening or working in. This is why I think it should be a Pirate, loose fitted, natural fibers, with a bold colour pallet would suit it so well. Example of what Im talking about is with SpiritFarer.

The colors, form, and stylization within this game screams Solarpunk to me. I think Id want to touch on each of these separately but for now I wanted to get this and a few other examples that I think would be great to use as well to incorporate some community building but also expansion into more inclusive types of fashion.

For example I also think having ear jewellery be a big part of it and my fave concept hearing aid jewellery. This could also be elf ears, metal work, or gems. The ones in these photos and from this website, are actually ones designed for hearing aids. Its simple to start but its a good start considering how little there is about the fashion side of things rather than hiding hearing aids. Or I'd love to use the loose fabrics as also an excuse to focus on fashion for people who need mobility aids //bring canes back as a fashion you cowards//, but also in particular for people who use wheelchairs since there is next to no fashion pieces that focus on comfort, silhouette, and function while being aesthetically pleasing to the wearers fashion choices.

Credit: wheelingalong24.com

Leading back into the pirate aes, I think things like bandanas and hats could also be a good trade mark and DIY activity. Lush even makes these recycled clothes from excess returned bottles.

TLDR: I think solar punk should be solar pirates taking from things like SpiritFarer and even Stardust. I think it should be inclusive from its core, and I think the fabrics for it should be incorporated to climate and threw DIY first. Id love to hear other peoples ideas of course this is just my opinion and it is just out of inspiration but I will go into more depth with Silhouette, textiles, making, and building a DIY culture around this concept separately since it is a lot even giving the basic ideas about it here.

[widthofmytongue]

Ages ago I was tagged by @lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers​ (February) and @legasovas​ (September!) in posts that were very similar but had slight variations, and I’ve had replies to both saved in my drafts since. I don’t know why I didn’t post them at the time, but now I’m going to merge them.

Favourite colour: I don’t think I’ve got a ‘favourite’; I tend to prefer colour combinations to individual colours: Egyptian blue/olive green; Rebecca purple/cyan; tobacco/burnt orange, etc.

Currently reading: [Sep.] I never really read anything in full anymore. I've read some Gramsci and some Ho Chi Minh recently. I also tried to read The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton not long ago, but didn’t get very far. [Feb.] I guess I have to admit that I’ve been reading The Necronomicon by H.P. Lovecraft, which is even more racist than I remembered. [now (Apr.)] I recently started The Gods Of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, and The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, but who knows if I’ll stick to either (I’ve started both several times before).

Last song: [Sep.] As I started writing this post, The Empty Foxhole was playing. But then I felt like Montreal, so after failing to find SS Cardiacs' 'Mersault Saw Sun', now 'In My Next Life, A Workhorse'. [Feb.] 'Future Interior' by Rockets Red Glare. Or was it 'Across Yer Ocean' by Mercury Rev? (it's so dark in here...) [now (Apr.)] In The Land Of Grey And Pink by Caravan.

Last series: [Sep.] Roadkill (which is a Beeb production starring Hugh Laurie and featuring the late, great Helen McCrory in I think her final role). [Feb.] Dead To Me (now on Star Trek: Picard) [now (Apr.)] Just finished The Good Place (which was actually really good, and I may write something about it for my pop culture for leftists thread). I also watched Hanyo No Yashahime or Princess Half-Demon or whatever it’s called not so long ago, which prompted me to dip into various animes from my youth, including The Vision Of Escaflowne (which is absolutely rad, but I worry has really grotesque transphobic elements?) and Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (which is babbling and incoherent, like just dumb af, but has redeeming qualities, namely anti-imperialist giant robots foregrounded corporatisation of geopolitics).

Last Movie: Billion Dollar Brain (starring My Cocaine as Harry Palmer) [this answer is from Sep.]. More recently I watched Escape Room: Tournament Of Champions (extended cut) and Godzilla: King Of The Monsters, both of which were uhhh pretty awful.

Sweet/savoury/spicy: I refuse the imperative to decide between just one of these. I want all of these in a single dish and I will riot and/or strike if this basic right is denied me.

Currently working on: I’m trying to get more fit again and walk more, with healthier workout habits (been doing measured breathing exercises with some half-assed yoga) as well as going on longer country walks again. Was also pitching ideas around with @boomonster-rawr for a hypothetical collaborative article, but I think she’s got her hands full with her PhD and stuff at the mo’. Also I wanna get back to drawing again, of course. I have lots of half-(or more like quarter-)finished art I wanna address. And honestly kinda wanna get back to posting on here more regularly again, do some writing, etc.

Currently Craving: Community; interconnectivity.

And on that note, I suppose I'm to tag others here to pass this on. @boomonster-rawr ; @brrrujaja ; @rotting-charm ; @glaxacitica ; @drunkwingtip ; @m0nicaish3re ; @uhq-tranimation ; @polykinkprincess ; @salamanderinspace ; @punkofsunshine ; @frustratedasatruar ; @otterorder

...And of course anyone else who fancies joining in!

[damnesdelamer]

hi, i saw your posts about old communist regimes. how did they not fail when there were human rights abuses committed by them?? (also this is a good faith question, i am a learning communist and i genuinely just want to know)

An anarchist (which I am not) might assert that human rights abuses are the basic function of all states, regardless of political economic model.

I would say that such human rights abuses as committed by e.g. the Soviet Union are far from unique to communism, and capitalist states carry them out far more widely, as part of their operational premise. Whereas communism carries with it a risk of being corrupted by imperialist tendencies infiltrating it, as does any structure of authority, whether egalitarian or hierarchical.

But my point on the original post in question* was in response to claims of political economic inefficacy. No one ever says 'colonialism doesn't work as a political economic model', despite the readily apparent fact of its legacy of genocidal abuse; no one ever points to the devolution of the British Empire into the Commonwealth (the way they do to the (Western-backed) collapse of the Soviet Union) and goes 'see?' Instead, we say 'colonialism is abusive/genocidal/evil', because colonialism is indeed abusive and genocidal and evil. If our measure of political economic efficacy was innocence of abuse, we wouldn't be saying 'communism doesn't work', we'd be saying 'statehood doesn't work', and indeed many of us are saying just that.

The simple truth is that communist states have worked everywhere they've managed to resist sustained military and economic warfare by American military imperialism (often by proxy; capitalists even utilise intermediaries rather than their own labour when sabotaging proletarian autonomy at state level). Claims to the contrary emerge from hegemonic propaganda from the Western imperial core, and while I'm not going to deny human rights abuses, reports thereof are similarly propagandised as well.

I appreciate you reaching out, and I'll return your pledge of good faith. But at the same time, 'regimes'? Have you ever written the phrase 'capitalist regime', or 'imperialist regime'? This is precisely the danger of such liberal debates: this kind of language frames things according to imperialist hegemony. @punkofsunshine was originally pointing out the difference between a sitting communist party and full communism as a form of governance, which I think is a worthwhile distinction to make. But here we are debating the efficacy of communism in light of the same abuses which we take for granted as being committed by Western imperialism. Why? Whom does it serve?

And who deserves your solidarity? Perhaps not Josef Stalin or Deng Xiaoping, but surely those communists who fought to resist the spread of global capitalist hegemony, in Vietnam and Cuba, but also in Angola, Burkina Faso, India, and yes even in Germany, Britain, America. And make no mistake, comrade...

This is the final conflict: let each stand in our place,

That the International working class shall be the human race!

*See original post here: https://damnesdelamer.tumblr.com/post/647630334382538752/the-difference-between-a-communist-party-and

[punkofsunshine]

The Importance of Different Goals in the Solarpunk Movement

Focusing on too many things at once is a problem I face personally, couple that with the need to take everything upon myself and low stress tolerance and you have a disaster waiting to happen. If you face the same problem as me, I'd highly suggest making a group of specialized people and solve small problems locally, whether that be growing food, hooking up satellites for free WiFi, setting up a Food Not Bombs chapter in your area, or even cooperation in local to state government. We all have our talents, honing yours can change a life, but it takes all of us to change the world in a significant way. To rebuild a structure, parts must be torn down, the more you tear down periodically, the better the structure is going to be, however it must be reinforced. You cannot expect a house to stand without a plan for a structure, we are the supports that make the wall, the roof, and the floor. The foundation is what we believe in, and what the foundation is, is hope. Hope for a future that can be, with action, collaboration, and resistance against the hierarchical, overbearing, and exploitative power structures that currently exist.

This has been my first post in a while, so I’ll see ya’ll again in probably a month to commemorate my first post on this site “A Beginner’s Guide to Solarpunk” which absolutely blew up my account, to be truthful I’m proud of how far we’ve all come with our small internet based movement reaching new heights and our voices getting louder in the ears of politicians and capitalists alike. We’re here to stay, don’t forget about it.

This has been @punkofsunshine, have a good one and stay safe.  

[punkofsunshine]

Is Solarpunk Utopian?

Hey guys, I’m back, I had a little reprieve from posting or even checking my blog. I wanted to address the themes of solarpunk, the direction it’s moving and if it’s considered too idealistic for our modern, cynical society.

Short Answer: Yes

Long Answer: No, not entirely

Yes, solarpunk may have optimism embedded in it, but that’s mostly to ward off despair. Despair is easy to fall into as an activist or even an entire movement, so the focus is mostly on environmental impact and restoration, mitigation of ecological collapse, etc. First and foremost however, solarpunk is a political movement and no political movement is entirely optimistic for the future, otherwise they wouldn’t exist to attempt to make a change. As a new movement, we all have to decide our direction, our appeal, etc and like I’ve said before, utopian visuals are a nice goal, but we must focus on what we can change now and not what the next generation will attempt to do down the line.

There are many things we can improve on as a movement, like drawing attention to it (either artistically or politically, preferably both), getting involved with local to state government, or even subversive action (not recommended, but very effective in certain circumstances). Whatever that can be done to push the movement into the public eye, do it, not only for yourself, but because it’s the right thing to do.

Anyway babes, that’s all from me today. This has been @punkofsunshine have a good one and stay safe.

[punkofsunshine]

Food and Climate: How climate change effects how and what we eat

Hello my lovely humans, welcome back to what I like to call informal essays. Today brings together two very important topics to me, food and conservationism. This is going to be longer than my last post and is going to involve some sidetracking as well.

I came up with this topic while looking at all the spices I was using to make butter chicken for dinner tonight and wondering how much the price was going to go up when shit really hits the fan, if we could have such dishes like this again, etc. So, essentially my anxiety spiral led me to doing research and wanting to discuss the intersectionality of culinary arts, climate science, and farming. In our current state, beef reigns supreme in terms of climate change contribution, the most eaten meat in the world is actually chicken, which is significantly less harmful than beef or pork, and yet beef and pork have the greatest climate impact and are highly susceptible to diseases (poultry is as well, don’t get me wrong). In general animal farming is a big contributor to climate change, crop farming is as well...

Crop farming, which I talk about here, also emits a lot of fossil fuels, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and pollutes ground water, depletes soil, and flows downriver along with cow and pig manure, thus killing fish, crustaceans, marine reptiles, and mammals who live in or around the sea. This combination of disregard after disregard for natural ecosystems leads us into where we are now. The Midwest is on the cusp of desertification, there’s been no agriculture reform or sign of actual change, which is why we need to take it upon ourselves to start vertical farming, hydroponics, and soil-less farming on an industrial scale. Not only is it more efficient, it’s better for the environment in every possible aspect, even using less water and requiring very little usage of fertilizers, but how do you replace animal farming? Answer: You don’t, you just get rid of it, the least amount of impact out of any animal is the chicken, so it may be able to stay, but cows and pigs cannot be farmed en masse anymore, it’s dangerous for our environment and our health, so they must be used all at once, and composted (with the rich preferably). It sounds cruel, I know, but there aren’t many better options. Of course the meat and dairy industries will try to interfere like they always do, but we knew that would happen anyway.

Moral of the story, our modern agriculture industry is profit focused and not based around the health or well-being of us or our planet, causing both a rise in greenhouse gas emissions, water and land pollution, and is just generally bad for us in the dietary respect.

Anyway, that’s all for today babes. This has been @punkofsunshine have a good one and stay safe.

[punkofsunshine]

The overpopulation myth: Dangers and consequences

The idea that population growth becomes exponential is real... in species with a low gestation rate or animals with a reduced natural predator population (mostly due to human intervention). Humans have a rather high gestation rate, it takes three quarters of a year to produce a fully formed human, during that time, people die and are born, maintaining a rather stable population the whole time. So where did the overpopulation myth come from? Easy, a book called The Population Bomb by Paul Ehrlich which advocates for forced sterilization of black and brown peoples as a form of population control and has been used to justify massacres like the El Paso mass shooting where an eco-fascist said it was a form of population control and cited anti-immigration rhetoric to explain away hate crimes and murder.

It would be acceptable to say that overpopulation is a myth perpetuated by capitalists so they can push blame of climate change onto undeserving people. Also, that’s exactly what it is, shifting blame to people in over-exploited countries to continue making more money than is necessary for any human being, but as we all know by now, capitalism isn’t really about money, it’s about the power and lack of consequences for fucking things up. For some people, it may be about money, but generally it’s about the accumulation of power over others. To use a cliche, money is the root of all evil, therefore we shouldn’t use money anymore. Abolition of currency is a good thing, no matter what authorities may say. When we don’t use money anymore, that will be the day we can actually remove our chains as a species.

This was a very heavy topic for me, but it’s important to discuss the anti-human and anti-poc narrative we so dearly want to avoid as solarpunks. Don’t fall into the trap of becoming anti-human while trying to fix our race’s mistakes both environmentally and socially.

That’s all for now, this has been @punkofsunshine, have a good one babes.

[punkofsunshine]

Why is my top post this?

I work so hard on my other posts and the only meme I post is now my top post, I get that it’s easy to absorb, but the effort isn’t there at all. It’s not intellectually engaging at all however. It just points out shit un/under-educated Americans do, which is most Americans in regards to socialism. I don’t get it, whatever.

[punkofsunshine]

Textiles: Agriculture, industry, couture, and exploitation

You guys may not know this, but I’m a fan of the fashion world, I have a deep respect for handcrafted clothing. The skill needed to make clothes is incredible, I’m a bit rusty with a needle and thread myself, but a few of my friends are spectacularly skilled with a sewing machine and a needle. Envy aside, this is actually a very good skill to learn, the decline of this knowledge has been beneficial to those who work in the fast fashion sector and nobody else. Clothing is an essential part of culture and I think that essential aspect is part of why I really dislike fast fashion as well as haute couture. Generally speaking the fashion industry does some pretty shitty things to workers and markets to those who don’t see anything bigger at stake than how they look, which is awful for a culture that’s as consumption obsessed as that of the US.

It all has to start somewhere, mostly from seeds, as long as you pretend that synthetic fabrics don’t exist for a moment (that deserves a post of its own when I move onto the topic of fossil fuels and their obsolescence), most clothes are made from cotton yarn, which is woven into fabric, which is then cut into various shapes and made into whatever clothing item is being manufactured, yeah? Well, there’s a problem with cotton even into the modern day and that’s the energy cost for processing and water cost for growing when you look at the water cost alone and combine it with the fact that in needs to be processed, transported, woven, and cut that comes out to be a lot of fossil fuels and even more water consumed. Roughly 20,000 litres of water (5,283 gallons) is used to produce 1 kilogram of cotton (2.2 pounds). High water cost combined with pesticide, herbicide, and fungicide use make cotton a nightmare for groundwater pollution, agricultural runoff, and soil depletion. There is a better source of fiber than cotton which uses less water and produces more than cotton does, hemp, the industrial variety of hemp is easy to grow and could be replacing half of all textiles very soon. Industrial hemp uses less than a third of cotton and produces, to read more about this hemp click here. 

Now onto the textile industry and how it feeds into both fast fashion and couture. As we’ve established, cloth is incredibly important when talking about fashion and clothing. It’s sometimes a selling point, if you want clothes that are easy to take care of, or want something that’s luxurious but is dry-clean only (I don’t know why people would do that to themselves, but that’s besides the point). The top textile manufacturer right now is Arvind Limited which deals in cotton fabrics, cotton is still king it seems, but it’s an India based company. I can’t seem to find who they supply to, although their financial reports are public access, I cannot find who they sell their fabrics to. I am willing to bet it’s mostly to fast fashion companies and some premier brands. That information is out of my hands however, but I can say they’re making bank as a 3rd party distributor with cheap labour on the ground floor. I’m afraid I cannot give detailed accounts of whom they ship to, but speculation will have to do for now.

A little break from serious topics to discuss couture, haute couture, and handmade clothing, I swear we’ll move onto the topic of exploitation of workers after this. Couture is essentially custom fitted clothing, haute couture is luxury custom fitted clothing, and handmade clothes are self explanatory. The only one out of the three that I don’t have a problem with is handmade clothing because it’s made to be warn more than once and is pragmatic, the couture however, is basically what you see at the Met Gala, to be worn once and never again. I think you see the problem as much as I do, a waste of resources and idolization of others based on appearance. Now, I may be misunderstanding or biased, but clothes are supposed to be worn multiple times. In this respect, couture is no better than fast fashion. 

Now onto the final topic of an already lengthy post, exploitation of workers in textiles. From the farmers who grow the fiber, to the cloth makers, to the ones operating the sewing machines in sweatshops, all of these people are being exploited by different organizations. The farmers are exploited via the seed industry as well as pesticide, herbicide, and fertilizer industries because they’re viewed as essential in the production of clothing fibers and food crops. For the manufactures of the cloth, they’re being exploited by whomever runs the factory for processing and weaving the fibers, same goes for sweatshop workers. It’s like this anywhere you go in the textile industry, even “high end” fashion is infamous for seasonal crunch times and overworking designers, photographers, and models. It may not be the same as meager wages in a sweatshop, but nobody should be under extreme stress over something that will go away from public vision in a month’s time. We need to rethink what we wear, me included. Instead of throwing clothes away, we should learn how to resize and repair. We’ll get to that point eventually, but until then we have to be more conscious about the things we take for granted and their social & ecological impact.

That was all for today, this post was 2 days late, but I work a lot now and it’s hard to keep up with any social media, especially when I’m essentially writing essays. So have a good one and stay safe babes.

This has been @punkofsunshine, out.

[punkofsunshine]

Quick update

God, political theory is dry as fuck. I’ve obtained The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels and multiple works by Peter Kropotkin (The Conquest of Bread, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, Fields, Factories and Workshops, An Appeal to the Young, and The Life of Kropotkin respectively) 

Quick Side note: You don’t have to read theory to be a leftist, dogmatism isn’t attractive and I’m well aware a lot of people don’t have access to these materials. 

But anyway, that’s all from me today. This has been @punkofsunshine .Have a good one and stay safe.

[punkofsunshine]

Don’t forget!

March first is international sunflower day, plant sunflowers where you know they’ll get a lot of sun, put them on public property, put them in your yard, put them anywhere that feels good to you. I hope to see you planting in five days.

This has been punkofsunshine. Stay safe out there babes.

[punkofsunshine]

Application Sent!

I applied to a college program to get my culinary certification,it’s not much, but it’s a start. Food is one of my many passions and working with it for a living has been a dream of mine since I was young(er). If there are any updates, I’ll post them here.

That’s been all for today, this has been @punkofsunshine have a good one and stay safe.

[punkofsunshine]

A Fun Post about Solarpunk Sub-genres

Lunarpunk

Lunarpunk is the sister aesthetic to solarpunk, but darker, I was actually surprised to see it has it’s own flag presented below. The basis is people moving to the moon and waiting for the earth to heal while in colonies, there would be tons of difficulties with low gravitational pull, constant unfiltered radiation from the sun, and probably even keeping warm, very compelling in my opinion.

It looks much like the solarpunk flag, but unlike the solarpunk flag, lunarpunk doesn’t have a political movement attached 

Tidalpunk

Tidalpunk is basically humans moving to the sea because the land has been left unhealed for so long, it’s almost uninhabitable, so people are living on or under the sea until the land is able to start healing again/ Expansion in population has led to housing out at or under water that’s Eco-friendly and doesn’t harm wildlife, sadly this one doesn’t have a flag. Luckily it has an aesthetic though.

Sustainable, ocean-based living? Yes please, makes me wish I knew how to swim though. To be perfectly honest I’m out of ideas on this post, so if you have any more ideas, please feel free to re-blog with what sub-genres relating to solarpunk you could find. I’m certain there are niche ones that I haven’t found yet.

As always, this has been @punkofsunshine, see ya’ll soon.

[punkofsunshine]

On the prevalence of “green capitalism” or greenwashing in life and common media

People are starting to care about the environment, and that’s wonderful... but there’s a catch. Always is, isn’t there? It’s a mix of aestheticism, marketing, and research suppression. More often than not, most entrepreneurs and companies are out to make a quick buck off of people who think that reducing waste or using renewable materials is active environmentalism. It’s not their fault for having the wool pulled over their eyes, that’s how so called “green capitalism” is designed, blaming others for being fooled is just victim blaming. Another tool of separation by the ruling class is greenwashing.

An example of greenwashing is this: 

You do see the problem here, right? I mean you’d have to be metaphorically blind to miss it. What good is reducing carbon emissions when you’re using a plastic bottle? Creating plastic causes hella emissions, From an article by NPR (I know, they sold out, but hear them out) “By one estimate, emissions from producing and incinerating plastics could amount to 56 gigatons of carbon — almost 50 times the annual emissions of all of the coal power plants in the U.S. — between now and 2050. ... And that's what makes replacing plastic a problem without a clear solution.” For the whole article, click the quote.

But where’s the point in what I’m saying? It’s not gonna stop anytime soon. The point is to potentially educate those who fall for these these things, as I’ve stated before, they’re victims of marketeering and (probably) propaganda propelled forward by the ruling class. In the end, putting green in front of whatever is being sold doesn’t make it true. Don’t be a victim, be what they fear most, educated.

That’s all for tonight (currently 7:22 American Central time zone as I’m typing)

I’d love for you to share this, with how many (ugh) liberals are on Tumblr, I wouldn’t be surprised if I got backlash for blaming capitalism, but anyway, this has been @punkofsunshine​, have a good one and stay safe.