@MarissaLingen says we can call it solarpunk, ecopunk, cli-fi......and panel will focus on substance rather than a moniker. Imagining optimistic (& inclusive?) environmental futures. Panelist Tom Greene says he's biracial & often writes >
- < from an outsider's perspective; Marissa is interested in intersections of disability and environmental futures; @ShiningComic writes with an eye toward optimistic indigenous futures.
- We need to be open not just to all solutions but to discussing what the problems even are, & from various perspectives and communities. "We need to listen to our neighbors. How do we model a future where we listen better?" - @MarissaLingen
- @ShiningComic says we tend to imagine optimistic futures as coming from shiny new technologies, rather than looking to solutions some communities (esp indigenous populations) have already developed, or respecting their lived experience as stewards.
- @MarissaLingen observes that book does a tremendous disservice to its disabled characters - including a character with depression - who are basically "left to die alone."
- @ShiningComic The climate IS changing, the sea WILL rise, we're already cresting the top of the roller coaster; all we can do is direct how far we fall. We need to be teaching communities how to survive and thrive in a changed world.
- @MarissaLingen The line between positive futures and utopias has to be explicit - too many people see fiction that solves or removes a single problem facing us and dismiss it as "utopian," & therefore unattainable.
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