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Is there somewhere I can read more about the anarchist history of the term? Also how is punk actually defined in this context? I have been confused about that for a while.
@LibertyLizard @poVoq - Here you go:
"What is Solarpunk?" by Andrewism including
"A Brief History of Solarpunk" and "The Politics & Art of Solarpunk"
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/saint-andrew-what-is-solarpunk
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Interesting but it barely touches on anarchism. Not sure this answers my question—unless the answer is that anarchists later gravitated towards this idea and were not involved at the start?
@LibertyLizard - I think it was a bit the other way round. Solarpunk started as an idea. Just the "I'm tired of dystopian scifi. I want utopias that address pragmatic concerns and show us a way out of this current situation."
Then folks started to collate ideas on how to make that work and found that various anarchic philosophies already addressed it.