Mx. Luna Corbden<p>What excites me about solarpunk, degrowth, and sustainable living, is that we have materials and science today that make simple living far more doable, safe, comfortable, and easy than it was for our ancestors. LRT, we have glass, which can do so many things our tribal ancestors would've thought magic. Like making a solar fruit dryer. We just need to turn our attention to creating these inventions.</p><p>I've traded my 40hr per week job for a 10hr per week job, in a simple RV in the country where I'm slowly weening myself off of white colonizer culture and the need to constantly buy things, and it's BETTER. I'd rather get my hands dirty and figure out how to keep away deer through my own awkward inventions, than give that labor to some software company so that they can screw me first chance they get.</p><p>I doubt I could fully feed myself with a subsistence farm, and I still need some kind of speedy transportation way out here, but I can do things myself as much as possible, and I've got STEEL TOOLS to do it with. I can repair my clothes with a steel needle and really nice thread, I've got glass jars and glue and wire mesh and straight-cut lumber with a power drill, and it doesn't take very much of these things to live comfortably. We don't have to go all the way back to the Stone Age to live sustainably. As a society, we just need to focus our inventive powers (currently decided by "capital") on better, more fulfilling ways to do things.</p><p>I'd rather struggle against nature than against the unnatural leviathans we call corporations. And I find that much of it isn't struggle, it's learning to listen and cooperate. It's healthier and more purposeful. It feels better.</p><p><a href="https://defcon.social/tags/solarpunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>solarpunk</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/degrowth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>degrowth</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/rewilding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rewilding</span></a></p>