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educator. activist. solarpunk. father. introvert. trekkie. not necessarily in that order.

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Another update to my list!
still dominant, although I read quite a few novels I liked despite being rather dystopian lately.

Added the category -adjacent for stories that have elements, but don't quite fit the genre, and ditched the category realism because who am I to judge that.

Other than that, there's also , and and a generic category, including and general

A colour-coded table of science-Fiction Books. The Dispossessed Ursula K. le Guin A half-built Garden Ruthanna Emrys A psalm for the wild-built Becky Chambers A prayer for the crown-shy Becky Chambers Ecotopia Ernesto Callenbach The Lost Cause Cory Doctorow The Parable of the Sower Octavia E. Butler The Parable of the Talents Octavia E. Butler Gamechanger L.X. Beckett Wenn es nicht passiert (german) skalabyrinth The Terraformers Analee Newitz Solarpunk Summers multiple Solarpunk Winters multiple Multispecies Cities multiple Solarpunk: ecological and fantastical Stories.. multiple The Ministry for the future Kim Stanley Robinson Walkaway Cory Doctorow Semiosis Sue Burke The Seep Chana Porter Planetfall Emma Newman To be taught, if fortunate Becky Chambers Sundiver Trilogy (first one) David Brin Lady Astronaut 1 + 2 Mary Robinette Kowal Wayfarer Quadrilogy Becky Chambers 2312 Kim Stanley Robinson Mars Trilogy Kim Stanley Robinson Binti Trilogy Nnedi Okorafor Noor Nnedi Okorafor The Memory Librarian Janelle Monáe Trisolaris Trilogy Cixin Liu Dogs of War & Bear Head Adrian Tchaikovsky Children of… Trilogy Adrian Tchaikovsky The Artemis Project Andy Weir The Martian Andy Weir Planetfall 2-4 Emma Newman
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    • lex OP ,
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    Also, compiling this has raised a question for me: Do you think a story set in space/off-world can be when the state of planet earth is still bad or unclear?

    i.e. sustainable, posthierarchical communities in spaceships or colonies, with great ideas for tech, democracy tools, ways of life?

    They do a lot for my optimism, but it still bothers me on a certain level 🤔

    breadandcircuses , to random
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    I noticed another article scolding “doomers” for doing it wrong. It says we shouldn’t make people sad or angry about what capitalist industry is doing to our climate and environment. The article claims a better approach is to give people hope, and emphasize positive steps they can take like planting a tree or riding a bike.

    Well, sure, those things are good, and I encourage them. But even if everyone who reads this post or sees that article stops driving a car in favor of bike riding and also cheerfully begins planting trees, that still will not make any significant difference in altering the trajectory of climate breakdown.

    The problem we face is much bigger than your carbon footprint or mine. And whether you feel happy or sad after reading this, that certainly will not affect the motivation of the oligarchs who own our society. Their only concern is to make more money and gain more power.

    Of course you and I should take appropriate individual actions (drive less, fly less, buy less, etc.), but we also should recognize that while those actions are important, they are not sufficient. Because what we need is system change.

    That will not be easy, but it’s essential.

    To get a comprehensive level of system change — which is the only kind that offers any true hope of avoiding complete disaster — we must remove all those currently in power, including the billionaires who control the politicians, and replace the current system with a different one.

    We must end capitalism and commence degrowth.

    Yes, this is a big ask. But we're talking about life or death here, literally. So it's a bold choice we must make.

    lex ,
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    @breadandcircuses

    I partially agree - we need to change our economic system, and the metric "number of trees" planted isn't great when it comes to fighting climate change.

    But the question remains: How do we motivate people to join the fights you described?

    In my experience, changes in personal consumption can lead to different kinds of activism, and hands-on work like tree-planting can do the same.

    Reading terrible news might do the same for some, but for most it's just disempowering.

    lex ,
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    @aurochs @breadandcircuses

    Maybe it's A truth, not THE truth 😉

    Another truth would be that millions of people worldwide are already fighting capitalism and climate change in countless struggles, and if enough people join this fight we still have a chance of living within ecological boundaries in the long term, and undo many of the damages!

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