Today, imagining a better future is a powerful act of resistance. It’s a way of reclaiming our agency when it feels like the ground is falling away beneath us. This isn’t about naive optimism or pretending the difficulties we face aren’t real.
Rather, it’s refusing to let these problems dominate our thinking. It’s about creating mental and emotional space for ideas that push beyond the status quo, even when the present can feel like it’s crushing us with its darkness.
If we only resist, we risk becoming defined by what we oppose. To change the world for the better we need visions to sustain us. Vivid and inspiring ones that helps keep us going through the tough times and challenges ahead. Ideas of the future that don’t deny the difficult work ahead. They give that work purpose and meaning.
This is why we believe in the power of solarpunk. Not as a fantasy to escape to but as a radical re-imagining of what we can build if we work together for a deliciously sustainable world.
Remember: fuckers only have power you give them. Scramble your emergency fallbacks, yes. Put out the fires first. But don’t stay reactive and defensive. Move along your path regardless, leave them as the wreckage they are on the side of the road to progress. Eventually we will reach a point where they are ineffectual noisemakers