…but I think I’d probably be miserable there.
I’m violently allergic to pollen, am terrified of bees, wasps, and grasshoppers, and generally despise bugs and dirt. My ideal world would see everything paved in marble. No cars, (obviously) with a quiet, sustainable, walkable communiy, but green, as beautiful as it is, causes me a great deal of pain.
It’s there any place for me in a solarpunk world?
Walkable cities are very much a goal, so if you can stand them now, you’d probably be able to survive them even if the most ambitious solarpunk ideals were made manifest.
It’s probably important to note that those ideals are just that - goals we strive for and proposed solutions for existing problems. But realistically we’ll be lucky if we can keep the planet marginally habitable and prevent some extinctions. There’s not much risk of suddenly being transported to a setting from a solarpunk novel.
And there’ll still be apartment buildings and office jobs even in some Ecotopia-type truly solarpunk society
That’s an excellent point, thanks! And thank you for doing what you can to make the world better :-)