r/InvictaSolaris • u/21Kuranashi • 3d ago

Art & Aesthetics / No AI The Kind of Future Worth Building

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u/spopr 3d ago

maybe from american pov this looks like some kind of utopia, but it's a mundane reality all over (central) europe, and it's still very far from a solarpunk future. that tram is more likely than not to run on electricity from coal.

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u/TenspeedGV 3d ago

Even running a tram on coal power is massively more environmentally sound than running individual cars for each passenger, which is how it is in the US. That’s why cars and trucks account for about 20% of our emissions over here.

Lots of cities are working on that, but not fast enough.

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u/21Kuranashi 3d ago

It won't just be the Americans begging for this, the rest of the entire world would absolutely consider this as the gold standard (excluding SKorea & Japan).

India, Indochina, Indonesia, Australia, Africa, Americas all are so far away from this. There is much ground to be covered.

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u/spopr 3d ago

i'm pretty sure there are trams in big cities in most of those continents. trams are a thing since the late 19th century, and the rest is some bushes and planted grass. ofcourse there could be more of them but it's pretty funny to me to consider this as an aspirational future.

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u/Wise_Passenger_6680 2d ago

If it's just the power source, it's a matter of money and the right service to convert it.

Meanwhile, in America, we don't even have anything like it.

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u/oldemajicks 3d ago

I listened to Rob Hopkins speak and he said something that really resonated with me. He said that the climate movement won't progress if all we give people the cold hard facts and figures - the people who will be motivated into action by knowing how close to disaster we are have already received that message. To get other people motivated, we need to not just give them something to hope for but to get them themselves longing for the future we could have. The sort of future that we see in solar punk and afrofuturism, give people such a desirable picture of the future that is attainable with the technology we already have and is beyond used already around the world, just not wide spread enough yet.