There already exist bits and pieces of just such an alternative right now, if only their potentials were drawn out. Worker cooperatives, self-sufficient eco-communities, directly-democratic popular assemblies, voluntary federations of small polities, mutual aid networks, community land trusts; all of these could form, it utilized, a very different kind of political-economic structure than the one being pushed by neoliberal globalization. Likewise, technologies such as solar and wind and wave energy, 3D printing, vertical farming, micro-manufacturing, free software, open-source hardware, and robotic machinery which can automate away human labour all serve to illustrate the possibilities of an ecological and decentralized technostructure where the means of production are under popular control, rather than used to enhance the profit and power of a ruling elite.
From ‘What is Solarpunk?’ by Connor Owens.
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