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Education Omnicrisis Reading Room

Don’t Eat the Seed Corn: The 1980 Book That Named „Overshoot”

Part of an occasional series: ideas from outside the usual solarpunk reading list. If you’ve read anything about ecological collapse, resource depletion, or the energy transition, you’ve almost certainly absorbed ideas that trace back to a single 1980 book most people have never heard of. William Catton’s Overshoot coined the term in its modern ecological […]

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English Omnicrisis SolarPunk

Scrapyards and Gardens

Industrial civilization will most likely pass through phases of decline before anything resembling solarpunk emerges. An analysis grounded in EROEI, Tainter’s complexity theory, and Greer’s catabolic collapse — extended with Indigenous futurisms (Whyte) and a critique of resilience (Solarpunk Cambodia).

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Artificial Intelligence English Omnicrisis SolarPunk Technology

AI in Solarpunk Civilization – Opportunities and Threats

AI is not a homogeneous category to accept or reject wholesale. We separate three questions: about the concept itself, about today’s large-scale AI industry, and about the possibility of a decentralized model serving self-governance.