Solarpunk Collective

-From a children’s fairy tale book in a Solarpunk library 2062 Once upon a time there was a great dragon. It lived in a mountain cave and slept all day on a vast hoard of gold. At night it flew out and gorged itself on a goats and cattle. Sometimes it ate villagers or burned towns. Eventually, the dwarves who lived in the valley grew tired of being terrorized by the dragon, so they assembled an army and marched on its cave. They defeated the dragon and imprisoned it, but no mortal can slay the great primordial beast. The victorious dwarves soon fell to arguing about what to do with the dragon’s hoard. Such a great treasure was difficult to divide. Every dwarf had fought in the battle and many had died, but some fought harder than others, and without the help of the sword smiths and armorers, there could have been no victory. Guards were set while the dwarves decided what to do with it. The sly dragon lay on its pile of gold, grinning at the tiny dwarves who thought they h...

With the popularity of Marvel/Disney's Avengers and the story line concerning Thanos, it's probably inevitable that people would start talking about overpopulation. And some of those conversations are going to bring out people who support eco-fascist ideas like forced population control. It think it's essential to reject these ideas as strongly as possible. Bodily autonomy, and reproductive rights are very important topics that everyone should make an effort to educate themselves about. We only have to take a look at the history books to see why concepts like forced sterilization or selective breeding must be consigned to the dustbin of history. Whether a woman chooses to have a baby or not must be her choice to make. Eugenics. We all know about the National Socialists of 1940s Germany and their attempts to engineer a "master race", but it was not only jack-booted Far right movements who were involved in attempts to control human reproductio...