This is so lovely! Thank you for sharing <3
I don't really think it is especially in comparison to petrochemicals, but hydroelectric dams also isn't my favorite green energy. They displace too much matter while also reducing the wildlife of the project area for me to feel comfortable with it. I think perhaps there's further ways water could be used to make electricity that are underestimated or even unknown. I like "old-school" hydroelectrics, watermills. In my opinion this is an example really of individualistic green energy being a better environmental decision on the whole. Such will reduce the damage of our energy needs. Power to the people.
Idiot troll. This platform is rife with y'all. It's become an issue, frankly. Honestly worse about it than Reddit, which is super unexpected. Fact is that solar is one of the best green energy industries that exist. A person using their big money to help it, especially in an INTERNATIONAL manner like this, isn't a negative. We don't have a method of free perpetual energy if you didn't notice, because somebody fucking murdered Nikola Tesla and destroyed his research to this effect. Probably there's even further people that have tried and been murdered and erased. You can thank capitalism for that, which if you ever bothered to read, you would know I am fully opposed to.
Yo, we can't even recognize human rights, as a species. Good luck getting anyone to recognize bot rights - especially when those (at least in our current state of tech) directly interfere with human rights.
My phone, a cheap Moto, has survived probably around 50 drops and falling into a tub. After years it still holds charge fine and I've made and sorted through (probably) hundreds of thousands of files of content with it. My current computer has also survived a lot and lasted longer than more expensive ones I've had previously. It's a cheap HP. I don't know if this is exactly "solarpunk" but it's technically low-footprint (comparative to industry standards) just because the tech lasts, even through hardship. I've also kept all my old tech and plan to recycle it after I've retrieved the data. Recycling is solarpunk, I think. I also have a vibrator that's lasted years, takes only one triple A battery, still works great. I intend to get rechargeable batteries soon. Battery waste is icky and battery recycling is tricky (because they're made of such hazardous materials). I'm hoping to get a solar roof installed but that's gonna take quite a bit of time especially since my country doesn't exactly have the greatest subsidies for residential solar.
Big oil motherfuckers should get the guillotine.
There's a lot of donations boxes scattered all around my town from various projects for helping the homeless and poor. They've become common the last half decade. Don't remember seeing much before. Salvation army/churches are also a common donation choice in my area. Can also give or sell them to a thrift shop or flea market I guess. I prefer the donation boxes run by what at least seem to be non-church charities, personally. Been using 'em quite a bit cleaning out my house.
This is super awesome and informative. Thanks!
Speaking of ACP, the affordable connectivity program just recently got cut.
Important to clarify we're also gonna drown. Drowning and starving while we're burning. Thanks so much capitalism and petrochemicals. Where would we be without you? Ah, yeah, not in hell. Can't have an actually decent world, nope, nuh uh. That's for suckers, I guess.
This is a pretty good report on the biggest problem with mixing education and heavy capitalism. Knowledge and truth don't matter to most everyone when they're getting paid big time for it not to. I don't trust any colleges in this country.
I missed this survey. I find the gender demographics intriguing. I'm unsure why this survey was so very male-dominated. That's really something to ponder about. Is it an internet issue, or is it something about the ideology itself? Are women in some way being restricted from solarpunk thought? This is phenomena of note in leftism, as well. I find it very perplexing, especially considering the shared goal of equality in these ideologies. I cannot believe women wouldn't be incredibly attracted to solarpunk, it can quite seriously be summed up with one word: care. If women aren't at least equal in their interest in the ideology, it seems to me something is very wrong. Thanks for doing the survey though. Nice to see what's going on in the community, statistically.