Hello all, I was wandering how would a production of things like microchips, solar panels and motors (and other electrical components) be managed in a anarchist, solarpunk society?
Any ideas and further reading will be helpful.
Hello all, I was wandering how would a production of things like microchips, solar panels and motors (and other electrical components) be managed in a anarchist, solarpunk society?
Any ideas and further reading will be helpful.
There is nothing inherently incompatible between a Solarpunk society and advanced electrical component production.
Sure, production with planned obsolescence (and thus fast innovation) will probably go down and people will make do with their 10 year old phone or so. And in general there will probably just not be so much demand for it.
There is also nearly always more environmentally safe and sustainable production methods, they are just somewhat less cost effective or in other ways not competitive enough on a global capitalist market.
This is my take on solar punk. Its not a ecomarxist or ecoanarchist uprising; there are a lot of good parts of society as it is. Solar punk is more of a refinement on the current system to remove aspects that don’t benefit society or the environment.
The planned obsolescence and things that don’t benefit us need to be reconsidered and regulated better. We need better and holistic plans on a lot for thing endvevors we undertake. We need to reuse where possible and not throw shit in a landfill. That kind of stuff
Indeed, we need to let go of some current practices but there is a credible soc-dem path towards solarpunk, even though I would prefer more radical changes, they are not necessarily a pre-requisite for the tech to be used positively.