Imagining a Solarpunk Education

If solarpunk is the future with humanity put back in, achieving it means taking control of that future from economic, social, & political forces that seem to be on autopilot to self-destruction, utterly divorced from human desires & human intervention. One path we've imagined already, and its grimy survivalist individualism was the defining feature of Reagan-era science fiction classics. However, in its radical reimagination of economic & social structures, solarpunk resists the nihilism & doomerism of the grim dehumanized technological dystopias that dominate the worlds of Blade Runner, Robocop, & William Gibson's Neuromancer.

Do we have the willingness to challenge the predominant social, economic, & political structures & systems that need to be challenged? To change the very nature of humanity's relationship to the planet? What role does education play in all of this?

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Chapters:

Introduction: 00:00-04:29
Fighting Back Against the Future: 04:29-07:32
The Doom Loop On The Brink: 07:32-12:47
Breaking the Doom Loop: 12:47-23:38
Solarpunk High School: 23:38-32:48

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