I found these paragraphs inspiring enough to share. Just living is praxis when you live mindfully.
Source: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/brian-a-dominick-animal-liberation-and-social-revolution
Living a solarpunk life is inspiring and impactful! If you’re interested in solar panels but worried about costs, you might find solarpricelist.com helpful. It sorts Amazon solar panels by price per watt, making it easier to find affordable options. It’s a great resource for anyone looking to make small but significant changes towards a more sustainable lifestyle.
I appreciate the sentiment here, but it is a little too individualistic. Time and time again, social movements have succeeded through mutual aid and solidarity. Just focusing on your own life is great, but you need to consider the fact that, ahem, we live in a society. Even if everyone in your community suddenly lived like you describe, there would still be the looming threats of climate change and biodiversity collapse, not to mention the exploitation of workers overseas (which very well may be producing the rare metals in your DIY solar panels).
I digress. Living a solarpunk life can take many forms. “The role of the revolutionist” is manifold. Its silly to suggest that a person’s life can be a model of an alternative, when we are so intertwined and connected with other human beings and environments. Direct action and organizing against state tyranny, fossil capitalism, environmental racism and other damaging systems is solarpunk. Especially if you are doing those things and still have time to grow a garden.
Again, going vegan is great. But just because you “assert your beliefs” at the dinner table doesn’t mean you are somehow doing revolutionary work. Movements have the power to change things, not individuals. Lets be real.
I agree. However, a much bigger step than a few privileged, first world individuals stopping to eat meat, would be shutting down the biggest polluters, starting with the fossil industry.
Start by cutting meat from our plates than move on to cut billionaires from our civilizations.
Begin low, eat tofu and unionize
I have in fact been eating tofu my whole life, because I grew up vegan. I am also a member of the largest union in my country. I am a bicycle rider for several decades now and can proudly tell you that I never owned a car. On top of that I have been vegetarian and did not fly during almost my whole adult life, etc. However, meanwhile the industry kept polluting and things went worse and worse, independently of my individual behaviour. Individual lifestyle choices are not enough, we have to act and end the fossil industry fast or they will doom us.
If going vegan is too much for you, just stop eating beef and switch to soy milk.
The emissions per calorie from beef are way way higher than any other form of meat.
What you said, but I’m entertaining video form https://youtu.be/F1Hq8eVOMHs?si=6U9VOJMAo8fVziEp
And even cutting out beef is too much, just reducing it still helps. I only eat beef if I’m going out to a fancy restaurant or something now.
