JacobCoffinWrites,
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Seconding this. I’ve had a lot of questions about how a solarpunk society would handle genuinely dangerous people (I know not everyone listed in the question is dangerous exactly, but focussing on the ‘malicious people’ part). But haven’t made it very far in the fundamental philosophy stuff regarding prison abolition, anarchism, etc yet.

In the small bit of solarpunk fiction I’ve read and discussions I’ve seen, I’ve felt a bit like the genre/community sort of sidesteped questions around the use and preventions of violence and how to handle individuals and groups who want to cause harm (with the exception of Walkaway, and Terraformers for opposing organizations). I know the underlying philosophies and movements like anarchism have been around for a long time and have answers, but I’ve been struggling with the texts I’ve tried so far.

I suppose I’m pessimistic enough to see bad times ahead - scarcity of airable land, water, and society-derived stuff like medicines - and to expect that any more solarpunk societies would only build themselves up in space made mostly after our current systems break enough not to oppose them. With that kind of postapocalyptic bent in mind, it’s tempting to picture something like the old west or early colonial societies’ answers to these questions. I think solarpunk offers an excellent opportunity to showcase better answers.

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