PetroskowoWe’re setting out in search of a path that might lead our descendants to an ecotechnical SolarPunk civilization. No warranty whatsoever, but it won’t be boring.
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).
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.