Ben
I only watched a few minutes of this video and stopped because it is too ill informed about solarpunk. Maybe it gets better, but the intro made me think that it is not worth my time.
Solarpunk is on the anticapitalist spectrum. The projects portrayed in this video as solarpunk are most certainly not. They are part of the greenwashing of eco-capitalist approaches.
Edit: If anyone would be interested to understand what solarpunk is and were it stands, andrewism would be a good starting point
What’s the solar punk plan to overthrow or supplant capitalism? Maybe the creator has misconceptions about solarpunk and its aesthetics, but his description of fascism seemed keenly inciteful. To dismiss the broader narrative because of an instance of disagreement is shortsighted.
The answer to this is a bit nuanced since solarpunk is not a political movement per se. Still, to reply to your question as best as I could say through political approaches like social ecology and anarchy, but I wouldn’t want to restrict it.
For more on this, check out the 2 links in my previous comment.
Watched both of Andrewism’s solarpunk videos, which are very inspiring and hopeful. But , just keeping it real, I fail to see how driving electric cars and buying solar panels is going to hinder capitalism. Wishcasting for the future is not praxis in the present. To me, the genre of solarpunk should be a depiction of an oil pipeline exploding.
