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Thanks for this, I was looking for new reading material!

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You're very welcome :) Any in particular that have caught your eye?

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To be honest all of them! I'm slowly making my way through all of the sources you provided :)

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Amazing! Glad to hear your thoughts when you've read them :)

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Should governments use emergency powers to rapidly scale up things like heat pumps? Sure, but it wouldn't be very solarpunk. And why use these powers to "scale up" when they could as easily be used to scale back? Wouldn't a ban on the sale of anything other than heat pumps be just as effective, if not more so?

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Why do you think it wouldn’t be very solarpunk for governments to use emergency powers to rapidly scale up things like heat pumps?

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The ideology of solarpunk is to circumvent the institutions that are prohibiting us from achieving the life we desire. A punk doesn't need the government.

There is a significant tension in this ideology between the monopoly powers that have the capacity to implement the technocratic solutions that solarpunk often portrays and the actual need to subvert those very powers to achieve an equitable, just, and sustainable future.

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Would you not have governments act now to prevent much worse climate breakdown and irreversible tipping points? Do you not believe the reports from groups like the IPCC and UN urging rapid large-scale governmental action?

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I would and I do. However, governments have had that information and the capacity to act for half a century, and yet have not exercised it. I have zero confidence that they will. Which is why I am, and have long been, a punk.

Furthermore, I disagree with the notion that punks and technocrats serve the same function in this enterprise.

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