this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2025
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[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

like what needs to happen to the 1%!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago

Stop, stop, I can only get so hard

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago

No giant gigafactories and no money signs. Modernism Fail.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

What exactly do you want to tell us with this?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

No Nestle bottling all the water, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

At an average global temperature increase of eleven degrees centigrade, climate models show that cloud formation stops. This, in turn, decreases the albedo of the planet, leading to even more warming.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Found the wOKe LibTArD. 👆

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

yep, you got me

I'm the villainous woke hippie Lib Dem communist dreaming of a world habitable for people, and I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for you meddling ten-thousand-crore dollar industries

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

…communist dreaming of a world habitable for people

Yup, only a communist would want the world to be “inhabitable” by everyone, without profit.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I like it as an alternative to all the ideas about the "future" that are just the status quo drawn out. This is the kind of future I want to think about when it comes to solarpunk. If this isn't the right place for something like this, please let me know.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

It just isn't very clear, as the image is just a regular water circle illustration.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

It's not, though? Very few coastlines have artificial sea-walls or reservoirs right up against the ~~ocean~~beach like so.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I was mainly just thinking of how our images of the future are shaped by the present, including our hopes and dreams. Even some solarpunk images I've seen created. So I thought it was a nice contrast to such things--a future that is the unhindered functioning of basic biological functions because we live more in harmony with the world around us. I guess I should have maybe added that to the original post, lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Thats how I read it as well. I like it, focussing more on restoring our natural cycles is the key to a healthy future.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

and the right want the water cycle to halt completely. That's a new one. To be fair to them, they have certainly tried with some of their legislative choices as of late, but I wouldn't say it was a conscious effort to break science. Oh wait. Oh I just got it.