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Stellar, a very convincing vision of how we can move towards a Solar Punk world. (stellarworld.com)

submitted 1 day ago by Ruigaard@slrpnk.net to c/solarpunk@slrpnk.net

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Just finished the stellarbook, by James Arbib and Tony Seba (from RethinkX). They make a very interesting case on how we can move from our current extractive societies to one of abundance. It touches on many themes that are well known in the solar punk community, still it brought together a clear overview and model of where we are now and how to get to a better world.

I was wondering if anyone here has read it as well. And what your take is.

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[–] alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

extractive to abundance

buy the book

[–] makyo@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's no excuse, Walled Culture is available as a DRM free, gratis ebook. If they wanted to make it free, they could've.

[–] Womble@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wanting to live in a better society doesnt free you of the requirements of living in the current one. Insisting all writing must be freely given away is equivalent to saying only the independently wealthy get a voice.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not wealthy by any means, but I've made the choice I'm not going to sell information to people. If necessary I'll sell my labour to companies, which may include creating information, but outside of a job if I create something, it's free for anyone to use.

People can have standards, unless they would literally die otherwise in which case do what you can to survive. But I doubt the authors of that book are in such a situation.

[–] Womble@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

That's a an admirable stance for you to take. It's not admirable to insist that everyone else is held to what you personally are willing to hold yourself to.

[–] Ruigaard@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Thanks for your cynisism, but they do have a lot of free reading as well regarding the topic at RethinkX.com. Besides, realistically book publishing isn't free yet, so I get they use a paid channel for book readers.

[–] thejevans@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 day ago

kinda related: I get that you gotta make money in this world, and I'm happy to pay for a book, but it always makes me so sad when authors don't offer DRM-free eBooks, especially when the content is about ending capitalism. This is even worse because, not only do they only have a DRM-laden option, but they also only selling it on Amazon.

It's really frustrating how common this is.

[–] alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 day ago

Nah, they just do not trust me to donate if their material is good, best case scenario. I dont have enough time to read all the good stuff published by people who respect their audience to pay for this... Wait a minute, not even to them but to hardcore unethical publishing house?!

[–] emuspawn@orbiting.observer 2 points 1 day ago

Asking your local library to acquire a copy might sting a little less, even if they do purchase it through Amazon.