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I left my comment on the repost. Here it is:
He goes on to have, what I believe, is a valid complaint: Leftists have ideals which block progression towards our goals.
One example: Instead of building a wind farm, we are arguing about economic impact, and then still stay on coal while we that argument occurs.
I think overall the video misses the point. The complaints are that bureaucracy/red tape/seeking perfection (in states such as CA) prevent society from doing things with impact such as building high speed rail, creating 15 minute communities (Shout out to !15minutecity@slrpnk.net), and providing shelter for all.
This is completely valid, but it has nothing to do with solarpunk.
If I recall correctly he also used the terms leftist, progressive, and liberal as if they were all interchangeable. Truly a horribly researched video with nothing of substance. The critique of some visual depictions had merit, but god forbid he pick up a book as a part of a reviewing a literary genre.
News at 10: guy watched yoghurt commercial on Youtube and is now expert on Solarpunk 🤦
It’s like he looked at a picture and invented a whole damn political movement and ideology behind it
If you enjoyed the straw-men in this video you may also enjoy:
- The Wizard Of Oz
- The Wicker Man
- Burning Man festival
“Degrow is bad” You lost me there
That not the only weird thing in the video. Basically he is proposing Soviet style government led infrastructure development, yet implies California is somehow communist and bad because of that.
It really doesn’t make any sense, unless your have a very specific uniquely US american brainworm.
Right? It was so confusing what random assortment of contradictory believes the author had.
Slight contention: the video title is “The flawed aesthetics of solarpunk” now. Not sure if they changed it following criticism or what.
The most coherent segment of this video was the advertisement
The content of the video was outstandingly disappointing.
I’m subscribed to this guy and don’t watch him much because he’s generally overly negative, somehow even when talking about things that deserve negative feedback.
I’m glad it seems like we are all on the same page, to the point that I don’t feel the need to list out any of the problems.
I would love a critical look a solarpunk, especially the gap between the execution and theory, but I’m unable to find a single argument in this video thats worth discussing.
Also @MrMakabar, even if this post doesnt get (or arguably deserve) many upvotes, I do appreciate you posting this to the sublemmy so that we can comment on it.
The hard part about arguing against renewables is the argument is a very complex, economic one. People love to have a single reason as the explanation for something but reality is far more complex. This makes it very difficult to present in an elevator pitch style.
