“Appropriate technology is a movement encompassing technological choice and application that is small-scale, affordable by locals, decentralized, labor-intensive, energy-efficient, environmentally sustainable, and locally autonomous.”
If you look closely this is not quite what’s represented in the most popular Solarpunk-associated works like Wakanda Forever. We need to question and move beyond the Wakanda model to get a realistically sustainable Solarpunk vision for the future.
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