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I always thought that architecture can play an interesting part in helping plan designs for affordable and regenerative housing. Most of the current designs are pretty shoddy because of the available materials, but some out-of-the-box thinking or maybe even rescuing some ancestral or aboriginal techniques could be really appreciated to find new ways to solve housing, water management, ergonomic design, leveraging social housing, etc.

I personally think you've chosen a real cool profession.

I read about this concept in a book about Ecofascism. The problem with that Malthusian way of thinking is this: Who will we leave behind? How are we gonna implement eugenics? Capitalists are a clear minority, and most of the global south seems to be an excellent target for answering that question.

A better way to look at the problem is to de-escalate and simplify. I mean, if you care about your fellow human beings.

Most of our work is already bullshit, and our industrial capacity (for the most part) can give us nice stuff. At the same time, we get rid of the high-polluting options. The world's population would self-regulate in horizontal societies just because everything has been that way historically. The phenomenon of hyper-poblation is a centralized-power thing.

It helps, that's for sure. Is just that, as an effort, is insufficient. I just want the readers to not lose focus on the origin of the problem, which is the system of power.

You can't ask the butcher to stop killing, his business is butchering. I understand what you are saying and, of course, keep up the good work fellow solarpunk. What I'm trying to say is that: making political demands to the state of capital has serious limits, and we need to keep on doing that WHILE pre-configurating socio-political organizations. That way we can make resonant means and ends.

Please, do keep in mind that this point of view is created in a "let's hurry" context. Since houses all around where I was born are affected by landslides and overflowing rivers. And waiting for those politics to work will mean death, or at least sickness or famine for us.

Love his enthusiasm, but is really can't be. 😰 Still, if you are interested in knowing some real efforts to climate change ala Social Ecology, you can check out:

• Ejercito Zapatista de Liberación Nacional
• Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria
• There are others but I can remember them by name, I would add here some ONGs but I think the best efforts have been those who straight-up work against climate change and social justice, since both are intertwined.

For those interested on why this will totally not happen: there's this great book called Capital as Power: The Study of Order and Creorder that's covers why the creed of capitalization discounts people and environment from their books.

Spoiler: Its because of how power over creation works and its motivated to accumulate power.