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This propaganda sounds like the script was written in the basement of China's Ministry of State Security. Are you working for MSS as an unregistered agent of a foreign nation?
The conversion of political & new watchers to endangered species saving starts with you & viewers replying to commenters about nations. Tell them to stick to saving #endangeredspecies
so what's your plan to get rid of all the right-wing voters who will block anything that takes away their right to profit and pollute? because the technology isn't the problem. the problem is that all over the world, right-wing voters and politicians have decided that, whatever their opponents want, no matter how beneficial, they're against it.
Yeah, instead of all the dystopian corporate post apocalyptic hells, I want a SolarPunk, integrated nature in cities, and tech integrated to heal nature around the planet. Solarpunk can also help cities to become self sustaining, rather than dependent on global monocultures run by global distributors. It would make all cities resilient against crisis and much better capable to help each other in times of need. How insane is our current society we pay taxes to clean up the poison corporations leave behind, and when there's a crisis we have enough food, enough people willing to work, enough goods, but just lack of money makes people go hungry? That's insane.
The notion of this kind of world brought tears to my eyes. This world is more than possible, but is resisted by the capitalists. Why do we let them keep denying us the world that everyone deserves?
you're acting like this is a few people doing something rather than 70+ million Republican voters. a few billion people all around the world want things like this, not just a few. that's the real problem.
@@perfectallycromulent incorrect. we have more in common with our sadly brainwashed and propagandized Republican brothers and sisters than anyone in the elite class. If you talk about these issues presented here but leave out the key buzzwords, many of them will agree with you.
@@perfectallycromulent Yeah, because they have been brainwashed to fight fellow working class. We gotta somehow show them things can be better without using trigger words.
Just a small list of things that contribute to the "why not" question: - "Social" (read: manipulation) media creating echo chambers through the algorithm (which yields same type content once you've perused some) - Scapegoating systematic problems on minority groups, like the housing crisis is blamed on immigrants - Political polarization through news- and manipulation media - Buying up news media to bring news in a biased way, rather than as neutral as possible - Housing being bought up to make a profit, rather than seeing them as a basic human right - Zoning laws, NIMBY, car lobby, honestly, the list is shockingly endless
We 'let them keep denying us the world' that we deserve because we are not cooperating enough to build the new path, the new system and society in which we want to live. If capitalism has got us to a destructive top-down tyrannical corporate owned world oligarchy where the rich have more influence on voting than the average person, then why would we keep thinking voting is the only way to overturn the crisis? We have to build bottom-up cooperative networks of mutual aid to actually show people how the better system can operate. There are some models available now, like One Small Town or Mutual Aid Networks. There are great backdrops on top of those models that can guide people, such as the principles of Library Socialism as described further by the Srsly Wrong Boys podcast and Andrewism's channel, and there is more coming from Peter Joseph who has Zeitgeist: Requiem soon to be fully released (trailer online now) and a new system change platform to be released as well. As Socrates was credited saying, remains true: "The secret to change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new." And that is where our focus should be. Build. The. New. Together!
The rich western countries (directly or indirectly due to their overconsumption) emit the most pollution, which the poorer nations then bear the consequences (climate change) of. It's mind-blowing that US for example has trillions for space exploration, but not enough money to stop world hunger (which takes a fraction of that budget). I signed up for "Giving what we can", taking an oath to donate 10% of my salary throughout my career. Little help is still help
the non poor needs to change the most, so those needs help the most. poverty is a monetary issue, but i do not think you have thought that deep. the '"poor" are doing the least amount of harm and deserve the most help. but the non poor is the cause of the problem.
@@TheCladeL The US doesn't have trillions for space exploration. NASA's budget is small compared to the military's (God what isn't compared to the US military) and they provide essential data via climate tracking satellites. Space exploration is not the enemy. NASA's scientists are on the right side. Attacking them hurts the effort overall I think.
@@TheCladeLI don't really get it why you aim at the US space industry, which is about 200 billion USD, and not the military budget, which is about 916 billion USD. The US could cut it's military spending in half, and still spend more then any other country on Earth.
Ya as a canadian i heard alot of these buzzwords in the failed venture capitalist project on the toronto waterfront... i think it was called citylabs. Cant remember. Either way this channel is something i watch to know what NOT to say when i advocate for the environment.
@@zachweyrauch2988 I am from Toronto. Sidewalk labs is what it's called, and it was by Google. It was an ai data drivin project that had all the leftwing buzzwords
Yeah this is the second video I've seen that mentions Almere as a solarpunk inspiration, it feels like a very undeserved title (though honestly I've never been outside of center of the city)
I don't know anything about the community and perhaps the author did exaggerate a little simply due to ignorance, but I took it's inclusion to point to a positive example of a metro area that is taking encouraging steps forward. If it actually isn't then someone would have to inform me of such.
Came here to say this. Almere is like one of the prime examples in the Netherlands of the car-centric suburbun capalist notion of the 70s. The entirety of Flevoland for that matter. Lelystad is also 🤮
We need to stop with the images of trees on buildings. It’s a bad idea. The building is better without the trees, and the trees are better without the building. If you think building a residential tower block with 100 trees on it is a good thing, you have to rationalize that against building an equally sized tower block and 100 trees in a natural environment with animals and a whole ecosystem. The trees put massive structural strains on buildings, and by putting them in buildings, the trees have far less impact than they would in, say, a recently deforested habitat.
plants on/in buildings play a role of naturalizing our modern life, aesthetics are important- but you are definitely correct there is a better way than trees that is suited for a building
Yes. Plants can work quite well, but don't do much other than look nice, but trees not so much. Similarly, let's end balconies that serve no purpose. I saw some recently that overlooked the M1 and were within about 5 metres of it. That's a major motorway, so your view was going to be traffic, pollution, insane noise, and honestly nothing on the other side because of the geography. Plus a balcony that was too small to do anything with anyway. Could have been bare wall, with no windows for minimum noise pollution.
Hear, hear! Also, please stop associating Solarpunk with friggin skyscrapers darkening a huge area around their base. Solarpunk is about Appropriate Technology that minimizes resource use (so no glass wall buildings with gigantic heating costs) and is easy to build and maintain with tools and materials as close to local as possible. Skyscrapers do not fit that in any way, shape or form. Skyscrapers are structures meant to support urban hyperdensity which has been made necessary by capitalist hyperproductivity and hyperconsumption, which are exactly the kinds of things we need to GET RID OF for a sustainable future.
Yeah, it's not that hard to just make parks either, or place some trees or berry bushes or whatever on the ground where they like to plant themselves. My city apparently has a program where if people ask the municipality, they can get something planted like a tree on their street if it doesn't have one already🤷♀️
"We cannot simply live in the world of art and imagination." Reminds me of the ending of "Ready Player One." They closed the OASIS on Tuesdays and Thursdays. People were spending all their time there, ignoring the Real World so much as possible. Reality bites, so let's all just escape into something much more desirable. Uhh, no; we have to fix reality. that means pulling your headset off and actually DOING something in that oppressive Real World.
Takes me back to the classic quote, to "Be the change you wish to see in the world" and in this context, we need to do it together, united, in cooperation, collaboration and co-ownership of our shared wealth and future prospects. With One Small Town as a platform for integrated community organizing we can do it. Many towns already are. More are joining. There may be others like it that develop, but at least we have on solid option. Free and voluntary to join, so we have nothing to lose to get involved except for our capitalist-created chains.
@@vestal9050 I’m a big fan of technological development too, especially in automation where it can be co-owned by the people to produce things safer and more efficient than human labor free humans from more work hours and provide a higher quality of life for all. Solar punk doesn’t have to be the design for all future sustainable towns. One Small Town is big on innovative tech for energy, for healthcare, food production, etc. A co-op community is what you and your community members want it to be, within planetary boundaries of course. That still leaves lots of room for high quality life for all.
It is important to remember that if it ain't *punk* it ain't solarpunk. Solarpunk is not a destination. Technofuturism and green utopias are a goal. Punk is the radical and direct action of achieving that end result. The Jetsons aren't solarpunk. Solarpunk need not be crazy futuristic. It can be as low tech as you and your friends guerilla gardening a plot of land your city refuses to green or redevelop. It is people oriented. It is the before picture of all the other art renderings of people *maintaining* their hard work.
Luxembourg is not "socialist" by many standards (lots of millionaires live here), but it has a lot to offer to people - the public transport is covered 100% free, and very efficient. It is also very much bike friendly and has a lot of small private and communal gardens, and lot of greenery and forests almost directly in the city! It does also have free day-care facilities at every corner. Free libraries, check. The energy part is still on to-do list... but it is a good start!
@@pedropinheiroaugusto3220 Norway isn't socialist either. It's social democratic. Not sure there is a good working example of socialism (I'm not a socialist!).
@@aturchomicz821 Your average citizen in Bolivia and Mexico is poor and struggling. There is not a single good example of socialism working in the world. Socialism has some good things to offer but to have a full on socialist system doesn't work.
Am I the only one who winces at, talking about capitalist deescalation, followed by a sponsorship commercial, for a subscription service, we didn't need ten yrs ago? ..... Can you say, "irony".
The ideal city is where there is a good balance between Beauty, Transportation, Walkability, Nature and Affordability. Our current modernist cities are only good for profit and they are quite affordable cause otherwise they lack many things.
Exactly many you get the point that would be our happiness no one would feel lonely anymore people would cry together live around each other commune together & brave a new future TOGETHER A NEW EARTH A BETTER GREEN HEALTHY EARTH FOR US ALL FOR EVERYONE STABILITY HAPPINESS NATURE & JOY!!!
Beside the obvious quantifiable reasons, it’s just pretty nice and cool imo. I have the luck of leaving in a pretty green city in the tropics (or at least my area of the city is pretty green) and it’s just really nice to see trees, bamboo and all sorts of vegetation near my house. I’ve gone to rich and huge cities like Berlin, München, Vienna, Venice and their beautiful in their own way but it just doesn’t have the magic of walking to college and see a flock of green parrots fly overhead, owls at night, I saw a hawk once, in some of the lower warmer areas you can even see toucans.
I joined the Green Party 17 years ago and am now deputy leader of my local council, and I’m trying to implement SolarPunk and eco socialist principles in my town, including a (approx.) three acre public food forest (documented on my channel 😉). One thing though: co-option, not co-optation…
No mention of nuclear power? The idea of every house in a city having solar panels and wind turbines on top is cute, sure, but the amount of resources required for that to power the entire city is unbelievable, and not quite realistic. Nuclear power on the other hand would require far less resources for a MUCH grander energy output. It would also require significantly less space than solar panels and wind turbines covering roofs, and it would be consistent. You wouldn't have to worry about power if the sun doesn't shine for a week, or if it's not windy for a week. This isn't to say we can't also have plenty of solar cells and wind turbines, just that it should not be the only source of energy we rely on. And before you start fearmongering, no, modern nuclear technology is far past any man-made disasters like chernobyl or three mile island. The chance of nuclear fallout or even explosions is essentially not existent. The risk is nothing, and the output is unbelievably much better than solar or wind compared to the resources it requires. I recommend checking out Kyle Hill's youtube videos on the matters.
@Anthrax02w Let some country rise and fully industrialize and compete in the global marketplace using nuclear, saving millions in a global economic crisis. They will all switch probably
Nuclear is a very dangerous idea. If they somehow made fusion work tomorrow and start producing "limitless" amounts of emissions-free energy, because we're in capitalism it would instantly be used as a reason to stop all anticonsumerism and profit-limiting environmental protection and resume business as usual and our unsustainable rate of natural resource consumption. Plus it's not really necessary - if we heal from overconsumerist addiction we could do just fine with what is produced by wind power and combined photovoltaic and thermal panels (PVT).
Nuclear is a very dangerous idea. If they somehow made fusion work tomorrow and started producing "limitless" amounts of emissions-free energy, it would instantly be used as a reason to stop all anticonsumerism and profit-limiting environmental protection and resume business as usual and our unsustainable rate of natural resource consumption. Plus it's not really necessary - if we heal from overconsumerist addiction we could do just fine with what is produced by wind power and hybrid photovoltaic and thermal panels (PVT).
Nuclear is a very dangerous idea. If they somehow made fusion work tomorrow and started producing "limitless" amounts of emissions-free energy, it would instantly be used as a reason to stop all anticonsumerism and profit-limiting environmental protection and resume business as usual and our unsustainable rate of natural resource consumption. Plus it's not really necessary - if we heal from overconsumerist addiction we could do just fine with what is produced by wind power and hybrid photovoltaic and thermal panels (PVT).
One thing I think would also be common are tinyhomes for those who want a more minialist lifestyle, or people who REALLY need alone space away from the sounds of an apartment or family group. I say this as someone with sensory issues, who's autistic. Not everyone will be able, willing, or comfortable in commune housing, and having mixed housing within people-centric cities is more realistic.
I'm an autistic person who lives in a Tiny home that I designed and built myself. SO much less work and money to sustain and I definitely have enough space for myself and to entertain a few friends when I'm up to it. It's completely possible as long as you use your space wisely. I also made sure to have good insulation and sound proofing because despite it being my own four walls, I'm still thisclose to my neighbors in an rv park. Once my job is okay with me working remotely I'm hoping to buy some off grid land where I can do a sustainable home stead and hopefully be allowed to allow other tiny homes to park there as well.
Yeah I agree with this. So many people in the solarpunk community talk about how we need to make housing as dense as possible to take up as little space as we can on the planet but that just doesn't sound enjoyable to me. I don't want to have to live in an apartment complex with hundreds of other people and I don't want to have to share cooking spaces with all of those people.
I found it essential to have a private fridge when my intolerable grandma camped out in the kitchen 😢... But perhaps one benefit of a solarpunk community will be the ability to get to a quiet park easily? Still, we must keep privacy possible
I love solarpunk theory and ideology. I wish as a planet we could shift the imaginary meter closer towards achieving some of what is talked about in the video. I do agree that the most progress happens at the grassroots and community levels, but it is definitely still a slow process due to the pushbacks from the capitalist regime we all live in and are trying to break free from. Maybe one day we will see more solarpunk practice in place that we do now to make solarpunk seem less of a theory and more of a practicality for the future.
See if you can be a collaborative part of inventing the healthy society of the future with a platform that supports such endeavours. Have you given One Small Town organization a good look? Free and voluntary, of course, but also has all the FAQ and regular updates by Michael Tellinger to view if you'd like more information.
I'm an interior designer but definitely try to practice Living Building practice whenever I create. I love the idea of a whole city embracing a sustainable values!
>Green pieces of paper cannot come before our future Those green pieces of paper are stand ins for someone's labor. I watch this video and find myself nodding along 'mmmhmm, and how are you going to *pay* for that'? Make no mistake, most of these ideas will require massive amounts of capital. So how are you going to fund that at a local level? Taxes? Ok, how are you going to raise those taxes in such a way that people vote for them? Because I can tell you every time someone suggests raising the sales tax my a fraction of a percent to fund better transit, it gets *solidly* voted down. You want to raise a city income tax like NYC? Unless you have NYC amenities? Prepare for a mass exodus of the very people with incomes you'd need to fund anything. It's a very hard problem, and a lot of socialists have no real idea how to actually *implement* anything.
I want to become one for this but with the amount of ai coming out it’s scary idk if it’s worth it to do that much school then when I get out ai will probably be at the point where it’s close to perfect and I wouldn’t be able to find employment. Lemme know if you have different thoughts.
@@TheTyAlbert While I agree AI is problematic, I believe there will always be a want and need for genuine artists like yourself. A lot of people are anti-AI.
who is going to build the city without capitalism? Everything comes with a price. I know that you would not build a city without getting paid. Look what happened to north Korea when they give them all their rights and land so that it could be equal. The rich give 40% of their INCOME, not their net worth, to taxes. Net worth equals assets - liabilities.
Yeah it has probably the worst looking city center in all of the Netherlands. Bland, soulless buildings, repetitive streetstructure and carcentric streets. It baffles me that a new city like this was even allowed to be built in this way!
I think it would be important to provide the exact numbers as well. Based on research, neighborhoods with 50,000 people should be named as one unit and provided with their own operations. Growing your own food, providing housing, providing a hospital and transportation, etc. More residents than this means simply unmanageable complexity, but no one talks about it, no one knows about it, which is why capitalism's "one-size-fits-all" businesses are successful.
It really reminds me of soviet early science fiction (state approved, of course), where the city (and society) or good/advanced people is green, sustainable, suited for people and has crazy technologies and architecture, as upposed to evil/old cities full of overconsumption, where main characters wonder what corporations are and why one would willingly agree to work under them and why good stuff isn't simply accessible to everyone. I really liked these stories as a child, I could perfectly see they were propaganda, but the utopia invisioned is mostly solarpunk-ish. It makes you believe in better world under socialism. BUT being born in Russia I know all to well how that dream actually turned out even for the same people who wrote these books. My grandgrandfather was sent to prison (where he died after 10 years served out of 15) just because he complained to a friend that he can't afford to buy a winter coat anymore and prices went up under Stalin. Someone heard him or even that friend snitched on him - we don't know. Soviet society was equal on paper, with little to no cars, local communities, and they even had "subbotnik", meaning a gathering at communal field to harvest together (held on Saturdays) or engaging in community work in general. Even though I'm young I did that for harvesting potatoes and cleaning autumn leaves in the park (forced to do both by school). BUT. Soviet society isolated people one from another, pitted them against each other and contributed a lot to that famous "no smile" of Russians. All in all it was not the best time for the country. It was f*cked up even. And it always makes me think why did people envisioned socialism being so perfect and cute in their books, but never managed that in real life. Huge public park is good, but not when you're scared to talk to other people or have to smuggle necessities. I wish that somehow the world can learn from these mistakes, look back on history and see what to fix and make a new one, for real, this time.
(My gripe is about the thumbnail and title, from the perspective of an electrical engineer. This isn't about the actual point of the video.) Solarpunk as an artistic genre is basically Star Wars level fantasy. The amount of energy being guzzled by the technology in almost any frame of the Dear Alice video is unsustainable on solar power without incredibly expansive wastelands of panels over what would otherwise be green earth. I like the tech in Star Wars, but I wouldn't say we should build it because we *can't*.
Certainly my biggest gripe about Dear Alice too. What really got me was the crop watering scene, a horrific amount of wasted energy just to water a patch of land the size of a living room. An $11.99 walmart sprinkler could do the exact same thing, for a little more initial effort a drip irrigation system could be set up if they really cared about sustainable use. School buses and tractors do not need to hover. I'd understand the tractor if it magically didn't damage the crops underneath but they already have roads for the bus to ride on. And that floating kettle actually annoyed me, that's a luxury for rich people who will spend exorbitant amounts just because they don't want to scratch the bottom of their cookware.
Transit doesn't need to be absolutely free. The monetary cost should just be used to help mitigate traffic. A shortcut bridge should be available for a small toll. The majority will still take the main road that might take longer, or mostly go around the city. It's just that the cost has to avoid the profit motive. Cost should help deal with demand. This is the purpose of markets. They are poor for anything except for determining demand.
@@KarlSnarks yeah, I think there should always be a free option actually. But, there are situations where I think it's appropriate to add a charge. Like, if you have like a shortcut that goes through town, there should be a longer way that most traffic is supposed to take. The shortcut should be short, fast, and have a small cost. But there should be a free method also.
As a market socialist and social corporatist, you are spot on about the use of markets. Markets aren’t inherently bad. We just need them to be community-oriented.
It is something I have noticed, and I try to fight for it whenever I can: Eating with each other matters, taking food and eating alone does something to our brains....
@@Mr.MasterOfTheMonsters It is realy fun most of the times. Allways talking and laughting with my Family or friends. Of corse some times there are debates, but most times it is realy releaving. What you are saying Sounds like some Kind of eating/food disorder.
I feel that is very cultural. Here in France, meals are a time to gather, discuss, have nice social interactions... In families we describe what was done during the day, we get to know colleagues at lunch at work... I find it really hard to eat alone 😢
Germany has a long tradition of "community gardens" or literally "small gardens" (Kleingarten), which were historically made to feed the poor, but soon became centeres of leisure, relaxation and local farming. Commodification of housing and the ever growing population (when do we stop doing that? Earth is limited after all) demands nowadays to build huge housing complexes over the green refuges. People lagely oppose such city plans, but are often overruled by lobbies and corrupt paid politicians. I'm glad, that here in Berlin (10:45) we still cherish the Kleingarten and fight back as good as we can, to keep the city as green as possible. (But this constant growth and building madness needs to stop soon, it's just a short term solution anyhow.) #degrowth #slowLife PS: watch the video in low quality to save bitrates and save energy. If possible, use audio only (some alernative apps support that), most visuals are stock images anyways ;)
It's important to remember that there is more to capitalism than just the one way we have been operating by for the last 40 years. There was a time when it was completely unregulated with no workers' rights, then trust busting happened. Then, in 80's deregulation happened, and now we are in the problems we have today. Capitalism isn't the problem, its lifted more people out of poverty and raised quality of life for hundreds of millions of people. The problem is lack of regulation, and lack of incentives for business to act in social intrests. Solar punk cities are possible in a regulated capitalist system with proper social focused incentives.
14:48 Why not also electric heavy rail trains for moving people and goods between cities and regions? Last I checked those aren't dependent on fossil fuels and have historically played major roles in community building. They are also far more efficient for transportation and far less destructive on both the natural and urban environments than roads and highways.
I love this topic and it truly brings me hope to think of a future in which we live better, communal and enjoyable lives. My city and state has been terribly destroyed by floods (search for Rio Grande do Sul news during May), and I've been very interested in understanding how our cities can adapt to the eminent global warming changes and protect those who live in it, however, one aspect of this video doesn't sit right with me - the mentions to the dismantlement of the police. I get there are many aspects in law enforcement that should be changed as we approach communal societies and better living conditions, but basically saying we should get "rid of the police" sounds to me like a theoretical proposal that is completely detached of the reality of poorer and fragile communities. While our houses were being covered in water up to the roof many families wouldn't leave their property fearing they would get looted. Citizens who were helping rescue lives ended up having their boats stolen by criminals and poorer communities couldn't leave their houses if the criminals in their area didn't allow for such - we had a huge need for strong police reinforcement during those vulnerable times. Say what you will about capitalism (since it fcking sucks either way), but people need to stop attributing every wrong doing to capitalism and its effects - human nature is complex and some people will try to take advantage of others, regardless of the social-economical practice in place. Be it the police or any other organization, societies still need to have their security ensured, and getting rid of capitalism won't make us all live in a utopia in which everyone is good and no harm occurs.
This is why I don't like tiny houses or other forms of eco-homes: there are already millions of unoccupied homes in the world. Countries like Spain or France are full of empty apartments owned by wealthy landlords. Instead of thinking about ways to build something cheaper and forcing ourselves to live in small spaces (which won't last over time), we should focus on better insulating the places that already exist. Or build things in sustainable ways for communities. A Swedish architect, Stephan Mareding, recently created a construction method called 22-26, a passive building that doesn’t require heating or air conditioning thanks to a smart form of insulation and clever use of new technologies. This, to me, is far more aspirational than buying a glorified trailer truck and reassuring yourself with the idea that you, as an individual, are more eco-friendly than the masses.
Yeah, agreed. @OurChangingClimate please refrain from using AI art, it’s not a good look for someone talking about Solarpunk. In movement about people and community replacing artists with machines feels kinda eh
Ah yes, a world where the sun always shines, ain’t that great. Sprinkle some trees on buildings, and voila - the future according to solarpunk. Just as its dystopian counterpart of a hellish blade runneresk world is more of an artistic endeavor and translation of a nightmare feeling I find solarpunk to be a naive imaginative art movement at best. As a serious vision for the future I think it’s quite delusional. (And no, Almere is not a proto-solarpunk city by any stretch of the imagination).
Māori are planting the seeds for an anti capitalist solarpunk future in New Zealand, especially Tuhoe, with Te Kura Whare which is called a "living building" because it goes far beyond just being eco friendly while still resembling an every day wooden building. And their planned communal eco villages which can house from 40-70 families.
So let's crowdfund, and buy back spaces in cities and create & protect the new commons. eg into nonprofit community land trusts, with bylaws ensuring access and ecological stewardship, and prohibiting rent and resale. Free community co-creative flex spaces, cafes, food forests, makerspaces, etc. We have the tools, we just need to come together and do it. All over the planet. Our project is doing it here in Kalapuya land, Oregon USA.
“A little can go a long way in a city…the fight over how cities are designed is quite simply the fight for a better world for all people on the planet.” This quote perfectly captures my passion for accessibility in urban design and why I’m fighting to go back to school and study it now.
just as important as identifying the problems that plague our society is finding solutions to those problems. its important to imagine a better future and show what we can do to make things better
So disappointing that most of the solarpunk artwork out there is generated by AI. I understand the use of it in this video since real source material is hard to come by, but it does tie this wonderful movement of equity and popular prosperity to a medium of exploitation :/
I'm sure it's eiser and cheaper than using a human artist so he is able to produce content faster, or enjoy more leisure time as he preaches in this video
15:30 i disagree, as an extremely frequent user of public transit i highly value a decent level of comfort and such but what you're proposing is beyond dumb. It's already hard enough drilling it into Politicians heads that Trains should NEVER be run nationwide with the intent to run profit, it'll only hurt the public. Trains tend to be run at some form of a loss, unless you cherry pick your locations and stats >.> Trains need to be subsidized. And you're suggesting increasing the operating costs by several MAGNITUDES in modes of transport where everyone is extremely content staring at their Screens OR out a window. There is virtually zero need for entertainment on public transit at ANY cost to the general public. Most governments would only tank a portion of that cost, sending the costs mostly to the general traveler who is likely already annoyed at very idea itself. Which brings me to the lovely part that your luxury upgrade of the trains and busses just cost the Taxpayer a bunch of money, for again: no real benefit. I'll give you the attendant idea, that's not that uncommon internationally already but they tend to be phased out over time for a good reason ;) In the end the mode of transport that tends to win out for the human race as a WHOLE needs to meet the following rules: - it needs to be as cheap as possible. no excuses. spread the cost over more people if you need to. - there is no second rule.
If you watch leftist content, there is often the assumption that the current levels of wealth inequality would already be abolished. Right now, in the current world, yeah it seems like everyone is squeezed dry and there are a lot of money problems, but that's only because money is a relative asset, and its accumulation in the hands of the super wealthy is growing exponentially. So if you continue the current system, exponentially increasing poverty would be unavoidable no matter what you do or how much you save. There would be nothing to talk about. "tips and tricks to keep surviving" isn't exactly inspiring.
You missed the point. It's a speculative description of one version of what transportation might look like in a post-capitalist, ecosocialist world. It's more science fiction than policy proposal.
Not to mention "Public transportation should be a fun place to meet people!" sounds like the opposite of a good time for a lot of people -- especially if you're already having to deal with unwanted attention/advances in public spaces.
What I find interesting is that there’s so much talk about ideal transportation and housing, but nearly nothing about where and how people work and earn their money. All this idealism about a green future serves humanity nothing if there’s no economic sustainability to it all.
I agree with the message of your videos, but the overuse of buzzwords and stock videos is just making it impossible to watch for me (unsubbed few months ago).
You complain about consumerism and its evils yet you sell $9.72 pamphlets in your channels store, and you are on patreon. Do you drive an expensive car as well? Given you are a TH-cam creator I would hesitate to guess that you have never worked in a factory that builds your computer, microphone, computer chair, computer desk etc. I have friends that have come from places like China where it is a "socialist society" and it has almost no laws against environmental protection and it is so polluted that my friends are doing everything they can to move their parents and children out of that "socialist society" to move them to Canada. We do not live in a perfect world I agree, but I hesitate to understand why a socialist, or Marxist society(another video on your channel) would be better. Please provide historical evidence that a "Solarpunk city" which will need to store that energy in something like Lithium batteries has shown to be better for the environment and people that reside there.
Well if you haven't realized, we live in a very capitalist society so fully detaching isnt possible. Both sides have their issues. Need both socialism and capitalism in real life.
Those won't happen alongside both Steampunk, Dieselpunk and Cyberpunk Don't get me wrong they have a good concepts to make games, movies, tv shows and the other projects to make the concepts look unique, however if we make them to reality it's impossible to let anyone survive 50/50 percent chance. That along with Solar as well.
Here in Ireland, whose impoverished ancestors have built half the houses in Britain, we are in the grips of a horrendous housing crisis, leading to a meteoric rise in fascism among the population. It seems we don't know how to build houses anymore. Despite a booming economy and a very low population density, can't seem to sink a spade in the ground at all. In this (artificially created?) crisis, only one in four new built homes are available for sale to the public, to buy and live in. The rest are pre-bought by massive (American) vulture funds, who can charge what rent they want, and pay no tax. There is a looming crisis re this rental society- who will pay the rent as the population retires, but still needs homes?
I can see the use of cars being sequestered to the disabled for accessibility and for emergency use, such as ER and firefighter vehicles. Most things that need transportation can be scaled down and made in the local area. It’s really just scaling things down to the human experience FOR the human experience. If we can just get to making a basis of empathy with multigenerational thinking rather then greed that we currently live in, then we can see this and beyond. 💚 This would radically change what we think of what crime is. Think about it. If the basics of food, water, shelter, transportation, and connection are covered by the collective, a selfish person/group would be seen as parasites on the community. What would the disabled life experience be like if their needs for access were simply seen as another way of living without gaslighting and violence from the average-abled? Would we seek to, as part of a sentencing, find the root of the crime and then seek to solve the problem that drove them to do the crime? Most “crimes” as we see them today would just become bygone stupidity like we see some things in history now. Thinking these things helps keep me going in our current hellscape that is the imperial core.
Very depressing, awesome video tho 10/10 Fluctuating between hope pilled and doomed pilled is normal, do not worry, what matters is to get organized and do the proper work.
The United States as a people have to get on board and embrace this if there is to be any hope for the planet let alone humanity but I don't see that happening. Ever.
I feel this video is more political propaganda centred than educational about solar punk, I feel disappointed considering the potential of the content🫶🤷♂️🚶
As long as they're not stealing homes from people that own their homes right now and and allow people who are elderly and people who already own their property to be able to fix their property and have the money for that I think that would be nice I would definitely want that to be sustainable of course but they should allow the Ubi and then we would all be able to do that. Like I said you would have to tie it to the GDP otherwise in the US the inflation come again because of businesses wanting to make it back. And also taxes and interest rates and everything else like that.
Hey have you considered not using ai for your thumbnails? I know margins on TH-cam aren’t great but i feel that it’s really in the solarpunk spirit to hire an artist, to work with another person to envision the future.
"Almere, outside Amsterdam" c'mon bro, you can do better than this haha. This is the most American thing to say. Amsterdam is just one city in the country; just say "Almere in the Netherlands" or something like that hahaha
I recently learned that in Japan you cannot call yourself a farmer nor get a farming permit unless you have a capitalist business plan for selling your crops/livestock.... Subsistence "farming" is in a way almost illegal here. You have to call yourself a gardener and only have a private garden if you want subsistence living.... but with this? You can't sell your produce nor own livestock... As far as I understand things with the language barrier, subsistence farming is illegal. I've had to completely revamp my plan for subsistence living because of it. If anyone in Japan knows differently? PLEASE share! As things stand now? My fiance and I are looking at subsistence gardening with fishing and hunting for obtaining meat (which is also very difficult and highly regulated), while working as freelance creators for an income. As far as I understand things, this is doable~
You are forgetting about the economies of scale. Not everyone should be a farmer and only able to eat from a local garden. If you don't have capitalism how are you going to encourage increases in efficiency in farming so not everyone needs to be a farmer. Maybe you want to be a farmer and farm your own food, but if you force everyone else to do the same, that is the only thing you will be able to do because no one will be able to build the solar panels or anything else required for your amazing life.
American economic situations for working people aren't that different in Vietnam honestly, or At least Vietnam economic situations for working peoples is around the England, since most peoples haves to endures all types of hardship, including works more than two full times job to stay afloat in most cities, mostly because of: 1# Housing is seen as an investment and the financials sectors domestically and foreign had bought them up, and workers had to paid, originally 25% of their salary, now it is like 50% of their salary to even afford decent modest housing, so like in the Imperial Cores. 2# Employers uses all kinds of loop hold or just literal threat to coerce workers into working for longer for less wages and benefits or the employer can just omit from paying worker salary, cut contact, and workers have to beg to the government local offices for month in order to get result since even the state in modern Vietnam is weaker than private (especially foreign) capital that they don't dares to take direct action without proof. 3# Employers can cuts workers salary in half and threaten workers near the end of the month and demands workers works harder for longer to even get paid, or the hundred other people will takes their jobs. Once again, the former worker government aren't daring enough to do anything until they have enough proofs to prosecute. 4# Employers push the works of 5 people on to 1 person and expect 1 person to do the works of 3 people, and paid them the same salary. The state won't do anything. 5# Not helping that in modern Vietnam, especially the business class religiously worships the exploitations of working people, and exploitation and extraction of their labors, and the injustices that worker faces, *Romantically* , as the "whips that shapes the youth into adult". Where are the workers union? They are arms of the state, and they ain't willing to do anything because the state is weak. Where are local workers union and labors organization? they don't exist. This country have lowers level of class consciousness and class solidarity among workers than "HUMAN NATURE!!!!" cultist. Make me think about the past revolution, if that was a lucky dice roll.
@@michellesmithunroe2463 We all lives in the same country, capitalism. At least over there are worker solidarity, over here, there are only corporatism and "middle class" spitting their privilege on other workers.
I think your channel took a far to left direction over the last years :/ I still enjoy your videos, but stuff like "abolish police completely" and every housing project should be owned by the community is just too much of a fairytale. We always have to find a balance between positions :D
From exchange to use? Hmm, is that use going to be useful to you or to some other person? If there's going to be use for the other, than exchange is the logical name for it.
Hey man, I appreciate your video's, but you went overboard on a couple things. If you want to be taken seriously by smart, influential people, you'll need to give solid arguments, instead of question-begging your way towards utopia. 1. free everything? (public transport, food, housing) - where are the resources going to come from? - where is the money that produces this going to come from? - what do you do about free-riders? 2. abolishing police? - so... if someone decides to treat others unjustly (steal/hurt/otherwise), we just hope that they stop?
Public transportation is already nearly free inside of cities. The small fee to use it helps to not only sustain, but improve existing fleet of busses and other. Food is already nearly free- you can get several kilograms of vegetables for nothing. The only problem is meat. Housing- either you plan for the future, or you plan to fail. Liberals are known to fail, so there it is.
Came to see solarpunk city that is actually possible ended up being lectured about evils of capitalism. Fine video but title is bit misleading in my opinion
i'm older now, but i hope to see the day when society is finally as it should be -- a highly progressive, highly technological fully socialist society that collectively acts to benefit all, not the mere few. i would very much like to meet the future and to become a part of such a society. i don't know whether i will have that chance, but i hold out hope that may be i will.
Probably a very unpopular opinion. But this is why I think it’s incredibly important to scrutinize the concept of purely remote work. Corporations seized on isolating workers geographically, making it harder to organize. Workers leaned in and sprawled out into suburbs. Due to increased alienation work has become much more transactional. Personally I just don’t think work should be looked at negatively, and should be part of the fabric of society.
I'd rather have us go all in on remote work and instead of these giant cities we can spread out and have many more small towns with 50k or so people. These would have a small urban core with community resources surrounded by many folks living in semi self sufficient homesteads
There are two types of people: 1. Those of greed and violence with no remorse, and 2. Those who have a picture of hope, unity and of humanity coming together. Those who have no morals and seek only their own survival are like a virus - killing all, even itself.
I appreciate the value of efficient public transportation systems. Must admit I hadn't considered the opportunity of repurposing parking lots and roadways but "free" simply isn't possible because there are costs involved. We haven't yet reached the point where we can just wish things into existence.
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This propaganda sounds like the script was written in the basement of China's Ministry of State Security. Are you working for MSS as an unregistered agent of a foreign nation?
I've always wondered how they [Ground News] .... differentiate fascist nonsense.
TREE CITYYY AWW YAHN BOYYY
But the parasites in my food?, insecticides are like medicines for vegetables and fruits
The conversion of political & new watchers to endangered species saving starts with you & viewers replying to commenters about nations. Tell them to stick to saving #endangeredspecies
This is the blueprint. This is what I want. This is what they took from us with their greed. People will say this is not possible but I know it is.
Indeed, all the tech needed already exists. Also, when we'd to a total societal make over, just imagine how many new jobs that would create.
Then i shall make sure it is so.
Bro do you know ow how much land in solar panels you need to power a city
so what's your plan to get rid of all the right-wing voters who will block anything that takes away their right to profit and pollute? because the technology isn't the problem. the problem is that all over the world, right-wing voters and politicians have decided that, whatever their opponents want, no matter how beneficial, they're against it.
@@perfectallycromulent How about me becoming Emperor of North America via a bi-national plebiscite?
Yeah, instead of all the dystopian corporate post apocalyptic hells, I want a SolarPunk, integrated nature in cities, and tech integrated to heal nature around the planet. Solarpunk can also help cities to become self sustaining, rather than dependent on global monocultures run by global distributors. It would make all cities resilient against crisis and much better capable to help each other in times of need.
How insane is our current society we pay taxes to clean up the poison corporations leave behind, and when there's a crisis we have enough food, enough people willing to work, enough goods, but just lack of money makes people go hungry? That's insane.
The notion of this kind of world brought tears to my eyes. This world is more than possible, but is resisted by the capitalists. Why do we let them keep denying us the world that everyone deserves?
you're acting like this is a few people doing something rather than 70+ million Republican voters. a few billion people all around the world want things like this, not just a few. that's the real problem.
@@perfectallycromulent incorrect. we have more in common with our sadly brainwashed and propagandized Republican brothers and sisters than anyone in the elite class. If you talk about these issues presented here but leave out the key buzzwords, many of them will agree with you.
@@perfectallycromulent Yeah, because they have been brainwashed to fight fellow working class. We gotta somehow show them things can be better without using trigger words.
Just a small list of things that contribute to the "why not" question:
- "Social" (read: manipulation) media creating echo chambers through the algorithm (which yields same type content once you've perused some)
- Scapegoating systematic problems on minority groups, like the housing crisis is blamed on immigrants
- Political polarization through news- and manipulation media
- Buying up news media to bring news in a biased way, rather than as neutral as possible
- Housing being bought up to make a profit, rather than seeing them as a basic human right
- Zoning laws, NIMBY, car lobby, honestly, the list is shockingly endless
We 'let them keep denying us the world' that we deserve because we are not cooperating enough to build the new path, the new system and society in which we want to live. If capitalism has got us to a destructive top-down tyrannical corporate owned world oligarchy where the rich have more influence on voting than the average person, then why would we keep thinking voting is the only way to overturn the crisis? We have to build bottom-up cooperative networks of mutual aid to actually show people how the better system can operate.
There are some models available now, like One Small Town or Mutual Aid Networks. There are great backdrops on top of those models that can guide people, such as the principles of Library Socialism as described further by the Srsly Wrong Boys podcast and Andrewism's channel, and there is more coming from Peter Joseph who has Zeitgeist: Requiem soon to be fully released (trailer online now) and a new system change platform to be released as well.
As Socrates was credited saying, remains true: "The secret to change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new." And that is where our focus should be. Build. The. New. Together!
The poor communities need the most help
The rich western countries (directly or indirectly due to their overconsumption) emit the most pollution, which the poorer nations then bear the consequences (climate change) of. It's mind-blowing that US for example has trillions for space exploration, but not enough money to stop world hunger (which takes a fraction of that budget).
I signed up for "Giving what we can", taking an oath to donate 10% of my salary throughout my career. Little help is still help
the non poor needs to change the most, so those needs help the most.
poverty is a monetary issue, but i do not think you have thought that deep.
the '"poor" are doing the least amount of harm and deserve the most help. but the non poor is the cause of the problem.
@@TheCladeL The US doesn't have trillions for space exploration. NASA's budget is small compared to the military's (God what isn't compared to the US military) and they provide essential data via climate tracking satellites. Space exploration is not the enemy. NASA's scientists are on the right side. Attacking them hurts the effort overall I think.
@@TheCladeLI don't really get it why you aim at the US space industry, which is about 200 billion USD, and not the military budget, which is about 916 billion USD. The US could cut it's military spending in half, and still spend more then any other country on Earth.
As a Dutch person, calling Almere a shining beacon of an anti-capitalist solar punk future is uhhhhhh... a stretch, to say the least
Ya as a canadian i heard alot of these buzzwords in the failed venture capitalist project on the toronto waterfront... i think it was called citylabs. Cant remember.
Either way this channel is something i watch to know what NOT to say when i advocate for the environment.
@@zachweyrauch2988 I am from Toronto. Sidewalk labs is what it's called, and it was by Google. It was an ai data drivin project that had all the leftwing buzzwords
Yeah this is the second video I've seen that mentions Almere as a solarpunk inspiration, it feels like a very undeserved title (though honestly I've never been outside of center of the city)
I don't know anything about the community and perhaps the author did exaggerate a little simply due to ignorance, but I took it's inclusion to point to a positive example of a metro area that is taking encouraging steps forward.
If it actually isn't then someone would have to inform me of such.
Came here to say this. Almere is like one of the prime examples in the Netherlands of the car-centric suburbun capalist notion of the 70s.
The entirety of Flevoland for that matter. Lelystad is also 🤮
We need to stop with the images of trees on buildings. It’s a bad idea. The building is better without the trees, and the trees are better without the building. If you think building a residential tower block with 100 trees on it is a good thing, you have to rationalize that against building an equally sized tower block and 100 trees in a natural environment with animals and a whole ecosystem. The trees put massive structural strains on buildings, and by putting them in buildings, the trees have far less impact than they would in, say, a recently deforested habitat.
_But plants on buildings look nice._
plants on/in buildings play a role of naturalizing our modern life, aesthetics are important- but you are definitely correct there is a better way than trees that is suited for a building
Yes. Plants can work quite well, but don't do much other than look nice, but trees not so much. Similarly, let's end balconies that serve no purpose. I saw some recently that overlooked the M1 and were within about 5 metres of it. That's a major motorway, so your view was going to be traffic, pollution, insane noise, and honestly nothing on the other side because of the geography. Plus a balcony that was too small to do anything with anyway. Could have been bare wall, with no windows for minimum noise pollution.
Hear, hear! Also, please stop associating Solarpunk with friggin skyscrapers darkening a huge area around their base. Solarpunk is about Appropriate Technology that minimizes resource use (so no glass wall buildings with gigantic heating costs) and is easy to build and maintain with tools and materials as close to local as possible. Skyscrapers do not fit that in any way, shape or form. Skyscrapers are structures meant to support urban hyperdensity which has been made necessary by capitalist hyperproductivity and hyperconsumption, which are exactly the kinds of things we need to GET RID OF for a sustainable future.
Yeah, it's not that hard to just make parks either, or place some trees or berry bushes or whatever on the ground where they like to plant themselves.
My city apparently has a program where if people ask the municipality, they can get something planted like a tree on their street if it doesn't have one already🤷♀️
Any time I see Solarpunk in a OCC video title or thumbnail, I get so hyped
"We cannot simply live in the world of art and imagination." Reminds me of the ending of "Ready Player One." They closed the OASIS on Tuesdays and Thursdays. People were spending all their time there, ignoring the Real World so much as possible. Reality bites, so let's all just escape into something much more desirable. Uhh, no; we have to fix reality. that means pulling your headset off and actually DOING something in that oppressive Real World.
Takes me back to the classic quote, to "Be the change you wish to see in the world" and in this context, we need to do it together, united, in cooperation, collaboration and co-ownership of our shared wealth and future prospects. With One Small Town as a platform for integrated community organizing we can do it. Many towns already are. More are joining. There may be others like it that develop, but at least we have on solid option. Free and voluntary to join, so we have nothing to lose to get involved except for our capitalist-created chains.
@@coolioso808here's the thing, I personally love the growth in tech tho? And a solor punk is the opposite of that
@@vestal9050 I’m a big fan of technological development too, especially in automation where it can be co-owned by the people to produce things safer and more efficient than human labor free humans from more work hours and provide a higher quality of life for all.
Solar punk doesn’t have to be the design for all future sustainable towns. One Small Town is big on innovative tech for energy, for healthcare, food production, etc.
A co-op community is what you and your community members want it to be, within planetary boundaries of course. That still leaves lots of room for high quality life for all.
The first 9 minutes is hitting me hard sitting in flooded Delhi
It is important to remember that if it ain't *punk* it ain't solarpunk. Solarpunk is not a destination. Technofuturism and green utopias are a goal. Punk is the radical and direct action of achieving that end result. The Jetsons aren't solarpunk. Solarpunk need not be crazy futuristic. It can be as low tech as you and your friends guerilla gardening a plot of land your city refuses to green or redevelop. It is people oriented. It is the before picture of all the other art renderings of people *maintaining* their hard work.
Luxembourg is not "socialist" by many standards (lots of millionaires live here), but it has a lot to offer to people - the public transport is covered 100% free, and very efficient. It is also very much bike friendly and has a lot of small private and communal gardens, and lot of greenery and forests almost directly in the city! It does also have free day-care facilities at every corner. Free libraries, check. The energy part is still on to-do list... but it is a good start!
The definition of socialism is the public ownership of the means of production. Luxembourg is not socialist. Norway is socialist.
This is not the case for Norway either @@pedropinheiroaugusto3220
@@pedropinheiroaugusto3220 Norway isn't socialist either. It's social democratic. Not sure there is a good working example of socialism (I'm not a socialist!).
@@ricos1497What a horrible comment section. The Pink Tide ring any bells? AMLO? Evo Morales? Hello??
@@aturchomicz821 Your average citizen in Bolivia and Mexico is poor and struggling. There is not a single good example of socialism working in the world. Socialism has some good things to offer but to have a full on socialist system doesn't work.
Am I the only one who winces at, talking about capitalist deescalation, followed by a sponsorship commercial, for a subscription service, we didn't need ten yrs ago? ..... Can you say, "irony".
Blaming capitalism is ridiculous.
Solar punk doesn’t disregard capitalism.
Punk in general is directly connected to anarchy.
The ideal city is where there is a good balance between Beauty, Transportation, Walkability, Nature and Affordability. Our current modernist cities are only good for profit and they are quite affordable cause otherwise they lack many things.
Exactly many you get the point that would be our happiness no one would feel lonely anymore people would cry together live around each other commune together & brave a new future TOGETHER A NEW EARTH A BETTER GREEN HEALTHY EARTH FOR US ALL FOR EVERYONE STABILITY HAPPINESS NATURE & JOY!!!
Beside the obvious quantifiable reasons, it’s just pretty nice and cool imo. I have the luck of leaving in a pretty green city in the tropics (or at least my area of the city is pretty green) and it’s just really nice to see trees, bamboo and all sorts of vegetation near my house. I’ve gone to rich and huge cities like Berlin, München, Vienna, Venice and their beautiful in their own way but it just doesn’t have the magic of walking to college and see a flock of green parrots fly overhead, owls at night, I saw a hawk once, in some of the lower warmer areas you can even see toucans.
Is this Costa Rica by chance?
I joined the Green Party 17 years ago and am now deputy leader of my local council, and I’m trying to implement SolarPunk and eco socialist principles in my town, including a (approx.) three acre public food forest (documented on my channel 😉).
One thing though: co-option, not co-optation…
Good job 👏
good work
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@@Catthepunk Ashford would be my guess from their name
No mention of nuclear power? The idea of every house in a city having solar panels and wind turbines on top is cute, sure, but the amount of resources required for that to power the entire city is unbelievable, and not quite realistic. Nuclear power on the other hand would require far less resources for a MUCH grander energy output. It would also require significantly less space than solar panels and wind turbines covering roofs, and it would be consistent. You wouldn't have to worry about power if the sun doesn't shine for a week, or if it's not windy for a week.
This isn't to say we can't also have plenty of solar cells and wind turbines, just that it should not be the only source of energy we rely on.
And before you start fearmongering, no, modern nuclear technology is far past any man-made disasters like chernobyl or three mile island. The chance of nuclear fallout or even explosions is essentially not existent. The risk is nothing, and the output is unbelievably much better than solar or wind compared to the resources it requires. I recommend checking out Kyle Hill's youtube videos on the matters.
@Anthrax02w Let some country rise and fully industrialize and compete in the global marketplace using nuclear, saving millions in a global economic crisis. They will all switch probably
Nuclear is too expensive for them unfortunately
Nuclear is a very dangerous idea. If they somehow made fusion work tomorrow and start producing "limitless" amounts of emissions-free energy, because we're in capitalism it would instantly be used as a reason to stop all anticonsumerism and profit-limiting environmental protection and resume business as usual and our unsustainable rate of natural resource consumption. Plus it's not really necessary - if we heal from overconsumerist addiction we could do just fine with what is produced by wind power and combined photovoltaic and thermal panels (PVT).
Nuclear is a very dangerous idea. If they somehow made fusion work tomorrow and started producing "limitless" amounts of emissions-free energy, it would instantly be used as a reason to stop all anticonsumerism and profit-limiting environmental protection and resume business as usual and our unsustainable rate of natural resource consumption. Plus it's not really necessary - if we heal from overconsumerist addiction we could do just fine with what is produced by wind power and hybrid photovoltaic and thermal panels (PVT).
Nuclear is a very dangerous idea. If they somehow made fusion work tomorrow and started producing "limitless" amounts of emissions-free energy, it would instantly be used as a reason to stop all anticonsumerism and profit-limiting environmental protection and resume business as usual and our unsustainable rate of natural resource consumption. Plus it's not really necessary - if we heal from overconsumerist addiction we could do just fine with what is produced by wind power and hybrid photovoltaic and thermal panels (PVT).
Having more than 3 Homes should be treated as the terrorism it is.
If people could afford it, they'll stop believing that.
@@apsconsusconscientia8978truth 😂
Uh, no. I get your point, I agree in owning too much houses is bad, but that is not the way.
@@KozelPraiseGOELROSo what is the way?
@@GIGADEV690 Like scammers, not fear, but with disgust and to be rejected from entering most places.
One thing I think would also be common are tinyhomes for those who want a more minialist lifestyle, or people who REALLY need alone space away from the sounds of an apartment or family group.
I say this as someone with sensory issues, who's autistic. Not everyone will be able, willing, or comfortable in commune housing, and having mixed housing within people-centric cities is more realistic.
I'm an autistic person who lives in a Tiny home that I designed and built myself. SO much less work and money to sustain and I definitely have enough space for myself and to entertain a few friends when I'm up to it. It's completely possible as long as you use your space wisely. I also made sure to have good insulation and sound proofing because despite it being my own four walls, I'm still thisclose to my neighbors in an rv park. Once my job is okay with me working remotely I'm hoping to buy some off grid land where I can do a sustainable home stead and hopefully be allowed to allow other tiny homes to park there as well.
@@mom.left.me.at.michaels9951 That sounds so nice! I would so join that!! Glad it’s working out so well for you so far!
Yeah I agree with this. So many people in the solarpunk community talk about how we need to make housing as dense as possible to take up as little space as we can on the planet but that just doesn't sound enjoyable to me. I don't want to have to live in an apartment complex with hundreds of other people and I don't want to have to share cooking spaces with all of those people.
I found it essential to have a private fridge when my intolerable grandma camped out in the kitchen 😢... But perhaps one benefit of a solarpunk community will be the ability to get to a quiet park easily? Still, we must keep privacy possible
I love solarpunk theory and ideology. I wish as a planet we could shift the imaginary meter closer towards achieving some of what is talked about in the video. I do agree that the most progress happens at the grassroots and community levels, but it is definitely still a slow process due to the pushbacks from the capitalist regime we all live in and are trying to break free from. Maybe one day we will see more solarpunk practice in place that we do now to make solarpunk seem less of a theory and more of a practicality for the future.
I’m manifesting and believing. THIS is what I became an architect for. Green pieces of paper cannot come before our future
See if you can be a collaborative part of inventing the healthy society of the future with a platform that supports such endeavours. Have you given One Small Town organization a good look? Free and voluntary, of course, but also has all the FAQ and regular updates by Michael Tellinger to view if you'd like more information.
I'm an interior designer but definitely try to practice Living Building practice whenever I create. I love the idea of a whole city embracing a sustainable values!
>Green pieces of paper cannot come before our future
Those green pieces of paper are stand ins for someone's labor. I watch this video and find myself nodding along 'mmmhmm, and how are you going to *pay* for that'? Make no mistake, most of these ideas will require massive amounts of capital. So how are you going to fund that at a local level? Taxes? Ok, how are you going to raise those taxes in such a way that people vote for them? Because I can tell you every time someone suggests raising the sales tax my a fraction of a percent to fund better transit, it gets *solidly* voted down. You want to raise a city income tax like NYC? Unless you have NYC amenities? Prepare for a mass exodus of the very people with incomes you'd need to fund anything. It's a very hard problem, and a lot of socialists have no real idea how to actually *implement* anything.
I want to become one for this but with the amount of ai coming out it’s scary idk if it’s worth it to do that much school then when I get out ai will probably be at the point where it’s close to perfect and I wouldn’t be able to find employment. Lemme know if you have different thoughts.
@@TheTyAlbert While I agree AI is problematic, I believe there will always be a want and need for genuine artists like yourself. A lot of people are anti-AI.
even a minute in, the truth you spit is awesome
I really want this city, this life, this world.
It looks like such a blissful existence with decency and fairness ❤
who is going to build the city without capitalism? Everything comes with a price. I know that you would not build a city without getting paid. Look what happened to north Korea when they give them all their rights and land so that it could be equal. The rich give 40% of their INCOME, not their net worth, to taxes. Net worth equals assets - liabilities.
Almere might be the worst city in the Netherlands. Genuinely a horrible place to be.
Yeah it has probably the worst looking city center in all of the Netherlands. Bland, soulless buildings, repetitive streetstructure and carcentric streets.
It baffles me that a new city like this was even allowed to be built in this way!
why?
I have no idea, just curious
I think it would be important to provide the exact numbers as well. Based on research, neighborhoods with 50,000 people should be named as one unit and provided with their own operations. Growing your own food, providing housing, providing a hospital and transportation, etc. More residents than this means simply unmanageable complexity, but no one talks about it, no one knows about it, which is why capitalism's "one-size-fits-all" businesses are successful.
It really reminds me of soviet early science fiction (state approved, of course), where the city (and society) or good/advanced people is green, sustainable, suited for people and has crazy technologies and architecture, as upposed to evil/old cities full of overconsumption, where main characters wonder what corporations are and why one would willingly agree to work under them and why good stuff isn't simply accessible to everyone.
I really liked these stories as a child, I could perfectly see they were propaganda, but the utopia invisioned is mostly solarpunk-ish. It makes you believe in better world under socialism.
BUT being born in Russia I know all to well how that dream actually turned out even for the same people who wrote these books. My grandgrandfather was sent to prison (where he died after 10 years served out of 15) just because he complained to a friend that he can't afford to buy a winter coat anymore and prices went up under Stalin. Someone heard him or even that friend snitched on him - we don't know.
Soviet society was equal on paper, with little to no cars, local communities, and they even had "subbotnik", meaning a gathering at communal field to harvest together (held on Saturdays) or engaging in community work in general. Even though I'm young I did that for harvesting potatoes and cleaning autumn leaves in the park (forced to do both by school).
BUT. Soviet society isolated people one from another, pitted them against each other and contributed a lot to that famous "no smile" of Russians. All in all it was not the best time for the country. It was f*cked up even.
And it always makes me think why did people envisioned socialism being so perfect and cute in their books, but never managed that in real life. Huge public park is good, but not when you're scared to talk to other people or have to smuggle necessities.
I wish that somehow the world can learn from these mistakes, look back on history and see what to fix and make a new one, for real, this time.
(My gripe is about the thumbnail and title, from the perspective of an electrical engineer. This isn't about the actual point of the video.)
Solarpunk as an artistic genre is basically Star Wars level fantasy. The amount of energy being guzzled by the technology in almost any frame of the Dear Alice video is unsustainable on solar power without incredibly expansive wastelands of panels over what would otherwise be green earth.
I like the tech in Star Wars, but I wouldn't say we should build it because we *can't*.
Thanks for your technical insight!
Certainly my biggest gripe about Dear Alice too. What really got me was the crop watering scene, a horrific amount of wasted energy just to water a patch of land the size of a living room. An $11.99 walmart sprinkler could do the exact same thing, for a little more initial effort a drip irrigation system could be set up if they really cared about sustainable use. School buses and tractors do not need to hover. I'd understand the tractor if it magically didn't damage the crops underneath but they already have roads for the bus to ride on. And that floating kettle actually annoyed me, that's a luxury for rich people who will spend exorbitant amounts just because they don't want to scratch the bottom of their cookware.
Transit doesn't need to be absolutely free. The monetary cost should just be used to help mitigate traffic.
A shortcut bridge should be available for a small toll. The majority will still take the main road that might take longer, or mostly go around the city.
It's just that the cost has to avoid the profit motive. Cost should help deal with demand. This is the purpose of markets. They are poor for anything except for determining demand.
It should definitely cheap enough that becomes an obvious choice over cars in most cases.
@@KarlSnarks yeah, I think there should always be a free option actually. But, there are situations where I think it's appropriate to add a charge.
Like, if you have like a shortcut that goes through town, there should be a longer way that most traffic is supposed to take. The shortcut should be short, fast, and have a small cost. But there should be a free method also.
As a market socialist and social corporatist, you are spot on about the use of markets. Markets aren’t inherently bad. We just need them to be community-oriented.
Markets are good at encouraging people to work hard.
A portion could theoretically be paid through taxes to decrease the upfront cost.
It is something I have noticed, and I try to fight for it whenever I can:
Eating with each other matters, taking food and eating alone does something to our brains....
Yes!!!! Eating and organising go hand in hand! Community gardens and meals are so important and radical
Eating is pretty gross. People should keep it to themselves.
@@Mr.MasterOfTheMonsters It is realy fun most of the times. Allways talking and laughting with my Family or friends. Of corse some times there are debates, but most times it is realy releaving.
What you are saying Sounds like some Kind of eating/food disorder.
I feel that is very cultural. Here in France, meals are a time to gather, discuss, have nice social interactions... In families we describe what was done during the day, we get to know colleagues at lunch at work... I find it really hard to eat alone 😢
People from 3rd world countries watching 1st world countries experiencing 3rd world problems like ( ͡ʘ ͜ʖ ͡ʘ)
Germany has a long tradition of "community gardens" or literally "small gardens" (Kleingarten), which were historically made to feed the poor, but soon became centeres of leisure, relaxation and local farming. Commodification of housing and the ever growing population (when do we stop doing that? Earth is limited after all) demands nowadays to build huge housing complexes over the green refuges.
People lagely oppose such city plans, but are often overruled by lobbies and corrupt paid politicians. I'm glad, that here in Berlin (10:45) we still cherish the Kleingarten and fight back as good as we can, to keep the city as green as possible. (But this constant growth and building madness needs to stop soon, it's just a short term solution anyhow.) #degrowth #slowLife
PS: watch the video in low quality to save bitrates and save energy. If possible, use audio only (some alernative apps support that), most visuals are stock images anyways ;)
why ai thumbnail?
It's important to remember that there is more to capitalism than just the one way we have been operating by for the last 40 years. There was a time when it was completely unregulated with no workers' rights, then trust busting happened. Then, in 80's deregulation happened, and now we are in the problems we have today.
Capitalism isn't the problem, its lifted more people out of poverty and raised quality of life for hundreds of millions of people. The problem is lack of regulation, and lack of incentives for business to act in social intrests.
Solar punk cities are possible in a regulated capitalist system with proper social focused incentives.
Maybe you should learn from the deregulation that capitalism doesn't like to be regulated and any attempt to do so will be short lived.
Check out Chile's 1/2 house initiative, where the envelope of a large house is built but owners additional rooms over time.
Well done and Im proud of you for sharing your personal opinion on a very polarizing discussion. One love!
I'm an organic farming student looking to design urban gardens/farms for this exact thing
14:48 Why not also electric heavy rail trains for moving people and goods between cities and regions? Last I checked those aren't dependent on fossil fuels and have historically played major roles in community building. They are also far more efficient for transportation and far less destructive on both the natural and urban environments than roads and highways.
I love this topic and it truly brings me hope to think of a future in which we live better, communal and enjoyable lives. My city and state has been terribly destroyed by floods (search for Rio Grande do Sul news during May), and I've been very interested in understanding how our cities can adapt to the eminent global warming changes and protect those who live in it, however, one aspect of this video doesn't sit right with me - the mentions to the dismantlement of the police. I get there are many aspects in law enforcement that should be changed as we approach communal societies and better living conditions, but basically saying we should get "rid of the police" sounds to me like a theoretical proposal that is completely detached of the reality of poorer and fragile communities. While our houses were being covered in water up to the roof many families wouldn't leave their property fearing they would get looted. Citizens who were helping rescue lives ended up having their boats stolen by criminals and poorer communities couldn't leave their houses if the criminals in their area didn't allow for such - we had a huge need for strong police reinforcement during those vulnerable times. Say what you will about capitalism (since it fcking sucks either way), but people need to stop attributing every wrong doing to capitalism and its effects - human nature is complex and some people will try to take advantage of others, regardless of the social-economical practice in place. Be it the police or any other organization, societies still need to have their security ensured, and getting rid of capitalism won't make us all live in a utopia in which everyone is good and no harm occurs.
You gotta drink more water bro.
I like the video, but that was my first worry. Stay hydrated.
This is why I don't like tiny houses or other forms of eco-homes: there are already millions of unoccupied homes in the world. Countries like Spain or France are full of empty apartments owned by wealthy landlords. Instead of thinking about ways to build something cheaper and forcing ourselves to live in small spaces (which won't last over time), we should focus on better insulating the places that already exist. Or build things in sustainable ways for communities. A Swedish architect, Stephan Mareding, recently created a construction method called 22-26, a passive building that doesn’t require heating or air conditioning thanks to a smart form of insulation and clever use of new technologies. This, to me, is far more aspirational than buying a glorified trailer truck and reassuring yourself with the idea that you, as an individual, are more eco-friendly than the masses.
SOLARPUNK VIDEO 🎉🎉🎉
“What image do we use for our solarpunk video? Just use that app that scraped the internet without consent”
How about punk law enforcement and punk judges?
The art @19:07 looks AI generated, its textures blending into each other in an unnatural way. Resist AI art and its co-opting of human creativity.
OCC uses AI art a lot. I'm not a fan.
Yeah, agreed. @OurChangingClimate please refrain from using AI art, it’s not a good look for someone talking about Solarpunk. In movement about people and community replacing artists with machines feels kinda eh
if you want to reduce carbon dioxide, solar energy is not the solution, at least not alone or in combination with wind energy
Ah yes, a world where the sun always shines, ain’t that great. Sprinkle some trees on buildings, and voila - the future according to solarpunk.
Just as its dystopian counterpart of a hellish blade runneresk world is more of an artistic endeavor and translation of a nightmare feeling I find solarpunk to be a naive imaginative art movement at best. As a serious vision for the future I think it’s quite delusional. (And no, Almere is not a proto-solarpunk city by any stretch of the imagination).
Māori are planting the seeds for an anti capitalist solarpunk future in New Zealand, especially Tuhoe, with Te Kura Whare which is called a "living building" because it goes far beyond just being eco friendly while still resembling an every day wooden building. And their planned communal eco villages which can house from 40-70 families.
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I think you should introduce winter scenarios
So let's crowdfund, and buy back spaces in cities and create & protect the new commons. eg into nonprofit community land trusts, with bylaws ensuring access and ecological stewardship, and prohibiting rent and resale. Free community co-creative flex spaces, cafes, food forests, makerspaces, etc. We have the tools, we just need to come together and do it. All over the planet. Our project is doing it here in Kalapuya land, Oregon USA.
“A little can go a long way in a city…the fight over how cities are designed is quite simply the fight for a better world for all people on the planet.” This quote perfectly captures my passion for accessibility in urban design and why I’m fighting to go back to school and study it now.
just as important as identifying the problems that plague our society is finding solutions to those problems. its important to imagine a better future and show what we can do to make things better
So disappointing that most of the solarpunk artwork out there is generated by AI. I understand the use of it in this video since real source material is hard to come by, but it does tie this wonderful movement of equity and popular prosperity to a medium of exploitation :/
Great video btw, that shouldn't go unsaid either :)
I'm sure it's eiser and cheaper than using a human artist so he is able to produce content faster, or enjoy more leisure time as he preaches in this video
eat them rich
15:30 i disagree, as an extremely frequent user of public transit i highly value a decent level of comfort and such but what you're proposing is beyond dumb.
It's already hard enough drilling it into Politicians heads that Trains should NEVER be run nationwide with the intent to run profit, it'll only hurt the public.
Trains tend to be run at some form of a loss, unless you cherry pick your locations and stats >.>
Trains need to be subsidized.
And you're suggesting increasing the operating costs by several MAGNITUDES in modes of transport where everyone is extremely content staring at their Screens OR out a window.
There is virtually zero need for entertainment on public transit at ANY cost to the general public.
Most governments would only tank a portion of that cost, sending the costs mostly to the general traveler who is likely already annoyed at very idea itself.
Which brings me to the lovely part that your luxury upgrade of the trains and busses just cost the Taxpayer a bunch of money, for again: no real benefit.
I'll give you the attendant idea, that's not that uncommon internationally already but they tend to be phased out over time for a good reason ;)
In the end the mode of transport that tends to win out for the human race as a WHOLE needs to meet the following rules:
- it needs to be as cheap as possible. no excuses. spread the cost over more people if you need to.
- there is no second rule.
I agree, the stuff he mentioned is great for more long term rail journeys, but not a tram or subway, especially not a bus
If you watch leftist content, there is often the assumption that the current levels of wealth inequality would already be abolished. Right now, in the current world, yeah it seems like everyone is squeezed dry and there are a lot of money problems, but that's only because money is a relative asset, and its accumulation in the hands of the super wealthy is growing exponentially. So if you continue the current system, exponentially increasing poverty would be unavoidable no matter what you do or how much you save. There would be nothing to talk about. "tips and tricks to keep surviving" isn't exactly inspiring.
You missed the point. It's a speculative description of one version of what transportation might look like in a post-capitalist, ecosocialist world. It's more science fiction than policy proposal.
Not to mention "Public transportation should be a fun place to meet people!" sounds like the opposite of a good time for a lot of people -- especially if you're already having to deal with unwanted attention/advances in public spaces.
People needs to get some self respect and fight for theyr rights to live comfortably
What I find interesting is that there’s so much talk about ideal transportation and housing, but nearly nothing about where and how people work and earn their money.
All this idealism about a green future serves humanity nothing if there’s no economic sustainability to it all.
I agree with the message of your videos, but the overuse of buzzwords and stock videos is just making it impossible to watch for me (unsubbed few months ago).
You had me until abolish policing
You complain about consumerism and its evils yet you sell $9.72 pamphlets in your channels store, and you are on patreon. Do you drive an expensive car as well?
Given you are a TH-cam creator I would hesitate to guess that you have never worked in a factory that builds your computer, microphone, computer chair, computer desk etc.
I have friends that have come from places like China where it is a "socialist society" and it has almost no laws against environmental protection and it is so polluted that my friends are doing everything they can to move their parents and children out of that "socialist society" to move them to Canada. We do not live in a perfect world I agree, but I hesitate to understand why a socialist, or Marxist society(another video on your channel) would be better. Please provide historical evidence that a "Solarpunk city" which will need to store that energy in something like Lithium batteries has shown to be better for the environment and people that reside there.
Well if you haven't realized, we live in a very capitalist society so fully detaching isnt possible. Both sides have their issues. Need both socialism and capitalism in real life.
exactly, hypocrisy at its finest
I prefer my Atompunk.
Nuclear fission and fusion is the way to go. 🍷🗿
Those won't happen alongside both Steampunk, Dieselpunk and Cyberpunk
Don't get me wrong they have a good concepts to make games, movies, tv shows and the other projects to make the concepts look unique,
however if we make them to reality it's impossible to let anyone survive 50/50 percent chance. That along with Solar as well.
Here in Ireland, whose impoverished ancestors have built half the houses in Britain, we are in the grips of a horrendous housing crisis, leading to a meteoric rise in fascism among the population. It seems we don't know how to build houses anymore. Despite a booming economy and a very low population density, can't seem to sink a spade in the ground at all. In this (artificially created?) crisis, only one in four new built homes are available for sale to the public, to buy and live in. The rest are pre-bought by massive (American) vulture funds, who can charge what rent they want, and pay no tax. There is a looming crisis re this rental society- who will pay the rent as the population retires, but still needs homes?
I can see the use of cars being sequestered to the disabled for accessibility and for emergency use, such as ER and firefighter vehicles. Most things that need transportation can be scaled down and made in the local area.
It’s really just scaling things down to the human experience FOR the human experience. If we can just get to making a basis of empathy with multigenerational thinking rather then greed that we currently live in, then we can see this and beyond. 💚
This would radically change what we think of what crime is. Think about it. If the basics of food, water, shelter, transportation, and connection are covered by the collective, a selfish person/group would be seen as parasites on the community.
What would the disabled life experience be like if their needs for access were simply seen as another way of living without gaslighting and violence from the average-abled? Would we seek to, as part of a sentencing, find the root of the crime and then seek to solve the problem that drove them to do the crime? Most “crimes” as we see them today would just become bygone stupidity like we see some things in history now.
Thinking these things helps keep me going in our current hellscape that is the imperial core.
Very depressing, awesome video tho 10/10
Fluctuating between hope pilled and doomed pilled is normal, do not worry, what matters is to get organized and do the proper work.
The United States as a people have to get on board and embrace this if there is to be any hope for the planet let alone humanity but I don't see that happening. Ever.
I just love this. Love from South Africa. Also it's called Khayelitsha not Khayelista but love this vid sm, this is the dream!
I feel this video is more political propaganda centred than educational about solar punk, I feel disappointed considering the potential of the content🫶🤷♂️🚶
As long as they're not stealing homes from people that own their homes right now and and allow people who are elderly and people who already own their property to be able to fix their property and have the money for that I think that would be nice I would definitely want that to be sustainable of course but they should allow the Ubi and then we would all be able to do that. Like I said you would have to tie it to the GDP otherwise in the US the inflation come again because of businesses wanting to make it back. And also taxes and interest rates and everything else like that.
Hey have you considered not using ai for your thumbnails? I know margins on TH-cam aren’t great but i feel that it’s really in the solarpunk spirit to hire an artist, to work with another person to envision the future.
"Almere, outside Amsterdam" c'mon bro, you can do better than this haha. This is the most American thing to say. Amsterdam is just one city in the country; just say "Almere in the Netherlands" or something like that hahaha
I recently learned that in Japan you cannot call yourself a farmer nor get a farming permit unless you have a capitalist business plan for selling your crops/livestock.... Subsistence "farming" is in a way almost illegal here. You have to call yourself a gardener and only have a private garden if you want subsistence living.... but with this? You can't sell your produce nor own livestock... As far as I understand things with the language barrier, subsistence farming is illegal. I've had to completely revamp my plan for subsistence living because of it. If anyone in Japan knows differently? PLEASE share! As things stand now? My fiance and I are looking at subsistence gardening with fishing and hunting for obtaining meat (which is also very difficult and highly regulated), while working as freelance creators for an income. As far as I understand things, this is doable~
You are forgetting about the economies of scale. Not everyone should be a farmer and only able to eat from a local garden. If you don't have capitalism how are you going to encourage increases in efficiency in farming so not everyone needs to be a farmer. Maybe you want to be a farmer and farm your own food, but if you force everyone else to do the same, that is the only thing you will be able to do because no one will be able to build the solar panels or anything else required for your amazing life.
This is the kind of future that we dream of; a future that many will fight for, including myself.
American economic situations for working people aren't that different in Vietnam honestly, or At least Vietnam economic situations for working peoples is around the England, since most peoples haves to endures all types of hardship, including works more than two full times job to stay afloat in most cities, mostly because of:
1# Housing is seen as an investment and the financials sectors domestically and foreign had bought them up, and workers had to paid, originally 25% of their salary, now it is like 50% of their salary to even afford decent modest housing, so like in the Imperial Cores.
2# Employers uses all kinds of loop hold or just literal threat to coerce workers into working for longer for less wages and benefits or the employer can just omit from paying worker salary, cut contact, and workers have to beg to the government local offices for month in order to get result since even the state in modern Vietnam is weaker than private (especially foreign) capital that they don't dares to take direct action without proof.
3# Employers can cuts workers salary in half and threaten workers near the end of the month and demands workers works harder for longer to even get paid, or the hundred other people will takes their jobs. Once again, the former worker government aren't daring enough to do anything until they have enough proofs to prosecute.
4# Employers push the works of 5 people on to 1 person and expect 1 person to do the works of 3 people, and paid them the same salary. The state won't do anything.
5# Not helping that in modern Vietnam, especially the business class religiously worships the exploitations of working people, and exploitation and extraction of their labors, and the injustices that worker faces, *Romantically* , as the "whips that shapes the youth into adult".
Where are the workers union? They are arms of the state, and they ain't willing to do anything because the state is weak. Where are local workers union and labors organization? they don't exist. This country have lowers level of class consciousness and class solidarity among workers than "HUMAN NATURE!!!!" cultist.
Make me think about the past revolution, if that was a lucky dice roll.
Better governance, administration and fixing supply and demand should solve this
We're all in the same proverbial boat and taking on water fast. 🙄
@@apsconsusconscientia8978 Politically willing governance may be.
@@michellesmithunroe2463 We all lives in the same country, capitalism. At least over there are worker solidarity, over here, there are only corporatism and "middle class" spitting their privilege on other workers.
@@Huy-G-Le politicians should be incentivised to work towards that
I think your channel took a far to left direction over the last years :/ I still enjoy your videos, but stuff like "abolish police completely" and every housing project should be owned by the community is just too much of a fairytale. We always have to find a balance between positions :D
From exchange to use? Hmm, is that use going to be useful to you or to some other person? If there's going to be use for the other, than exchange is the logical name for it.
Communist shill language like this is so annoying i couldn't even make it a minute into a video on a subject I'm actually interested in.
This man acts like socialism is the holy grail.
It annoys me when political activists shove their activist opinion (anti-capitalism in this case) into an urbanism video. Just stop. 🙄
I think if you use taxes in a smart way that's fine like luxury tax for example or environmental tax would make sense.
Hey man, I appreciate your video's, but you went overboard on a couple things. If you want to be taken seriously by smart, influential people, you'll need to give solid arguments, instead of question-begging your way towards utopia.
1. free everything? (public transport, food, housing)
- where are the resources going to come from?
- where is the money that produces this going to come from?
- what do you do about free-riders?
2. abolishing police?
- so... if someone decides to treat others unjustly (steal/hurt/otherwise), we just hope that they stop?
Public transportation is already nearly free inside of cities. The small fee to use it helps to not only sustain, but improve existing fleet of busses and other.
Food is already nearly free- you can get several kilograms of vegetables for nothing. The only problem is meat.
Housing- either you plan for the future, or you plan to fail. Liberals are known to fail, so there it is.
Should be able to get wherever you want to go within 15 minutes hum hum hum hum
Came to see solarpunk city that is actually possible ended up being lectured about evils of capitalism.
Fine video but title is bit misleading in my opinion
Wanted to watch this but the background music is just way too aggressive.
Bruh
Great plan we just need to topple the system that rewards psychopaths.
I love how communist this video is, Marx was right
Keep korea japan china and other countries and nations safe 🙏 ❤
What about private property ? Will it be exist in such cities?
18:15 thank you for saying there would be cinemas, I'm a former cinema employee and I truly believe that capitalism is killing the industry
i'm older now, but i hope to see the day when society is finally as it should be -- a highly progressive, highly technological fully socialist society that collectively acts to benefit all, not the mere few. i would very much like to meet the future and to become a part of such a society. i don't know whether i will have that chance, but i hold out hope that may be i will.
Probably a very unpopular opinion. But this is why I think it’s incredibly important to scrutinize the concept of purely remote work. Corporations seized on isolating workers geographically, making it harder to organize. Workers leaned in and sprawled out into suburbs. Due to increased alienation work has become much more transactional. Personally I just don’t think work should be looked at negatively, and should be part of the fabric of society.
I'd rather have us go all in on remote work and instead of these giant cities we can spread out and have many more small towns with 50k or so people. These would have a small urban core with community resources surrounded by many folks living in semi self sufficient homesteads
Capitalism hardly ever diverged from Feudalism....
Change will come, If we want it or not. Vote those political parties that move towards a green and solar energy future.
There are two types of people:
1. Those of greed and violence with no remorse, and
2. Those who have a picture of hope, unity and of humanity coming together.
Those who have no morals and seek only their own survival are like a virus - killing all, even itself.
Bingo
That was a concept of communist
LOL. Won't happen. WASF
you didn't discuss how all these services would be financed or how the economy would even work?
This video was centered around what our future will look like. How our future could be financed is covered in other videos of his.
If you havent already check out climate town.
@@PlazDreamweaverhe should've mentioned it
I appreciate the value of efficient public transportation systems. Must admit I hadn't considered the opportunity of repurposing parking lots and roadways but "free" simply isn't possible because there are costs involved. We haven't yet reached the point where we can just wish things into existence.
You Know, robots would be a possibility. Strive to a world of Abundance, as Elon Musk noted
Start a guerilla garden today!
How do you make change when all the buildings are already there? U can’t just knock down most of it?
I'm very happy to see more of the art from my book making it to wide reaching videos such as yours!
Cheers!
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Ending Food Apartheid.
That's the best thrree-word explanation for Solarpunk I've heard yet.