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Solarpunk — Climate Optimism in Art and Literature

A nice article by the major German public broadcaster's news site. Translation by ChatGPT3.5:

The gloomy outlook on the future is countered by the genre Solarpunk: It creates online in art and literature a future worth living in, and one that might even be attainable.

Green meadows dotted with individual solar panels, with cows dozing in the shade. Floating balloons resembling turbines, with rotors generating electricity. Artificial cloud formations created above a small cultivation area that rains just enough to make the land fertile. Solar-powered, autonomously flying buses connecting the countryside with the city. It sounds like a utopia, a utopia of a world where people live in harmony with nature and use technology in a gentle manner.

These described scenes are from an anime that can be found on YouTube and represent a trend that has been growing in social networks in recent years: Solarpunk. It's a sustainable, green utopia expressed in art, design, and mostly in short s