Solarpunk is Eco-Speculation, in Both Fiction and Reality. Solarpunk is a (mostly) aesthetic-cultural and (sometimes) ethical-political tendency which attempts to negate the dominant idea which grips popular consciousness: that the future must be grim, or at least grim for the mass of people and nonhuman forms of life on the planet. Looking at the millennia-old rift between human society and the natural world, it sets as its ethical foundation the necessity of mending this rift, transforming our relation to the planet by transcending those social structures which lead to systemic ecocide. It draws a lot from the philosophy of social ecology, which also focused on mending this rift by restructuring society to function more like ecology: non-hierarchical, cooperative, diverse, and seeking balance. From ‘What is Solarpunk?’ by Connor Owens. Arwork was created in https://artbreeder.com/ Artbreeder app was created by Joel Simon https://www.joelsimon.net/