But how will I get my caviar from sturgeon then??!?!?

Yep that’s what I’ve heard about Parable of the Sower but all the more reason to read it. I work on a GPU cluster called Butler named after her (among others like Hemingway, Murakami, Asimov, and Kafka) so apparently she’s pretty good.

Not taking a photo, but here are mine:

• The Ministry for the Future

• I’m With the Bears: Short Stories from a Damaged Planet

• Termination Shock

• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

• American War (Omar El Akkad)

Books that I want to read but haven’t:

• Petroleum Papers

• Seveneves

• Parable of the Sower (Butler)

• The Language of Climate Politics (Guenther)

• The Deluge (Markley)

• Merchants of Doubt (Oreskes)

• The Big Myth (Oreskes)

Wrong community? This is treehuggers not treeclimbers DUH

Nice! I’ve been using Fab Tab and it’s similar. So far so good.

They know Trump is just a blip in what is otherwise a strong climate change mitigation desire in the world as a whole. They don’t want to make themselves a target of the MAGA cult, but once he dies and the cult implodes, they can go back to sharing it openly.

First, I love the energy. To your last question, if you can get into the right industries, then you can absolutely push forward solarpunk ideals. However, in many cases it entirely depends on where the funding is coming from.

I’ve been an ML engineer for a long time. If you work in a company or organization at an entry level, it’s not really up to you how much the work will contribute to any specific ideals you have. However as you gain more experience, make connections, and yield more power overall, you can shape projects or entire portfolios towards solarpunk, assuming that fits within the constraints and meets requirements. The high level work shaping step usually takes many years and lots of experience to reach though.

I’d recommend specializing in some engineering discipline with some applications in mind, as that’ll give you much more direct experience and make it more likely you’ll get hired by a company/organization that does “solarpunk” research and development (R&D), and testing and evaluation (T&E). I’m assuming solarpunk tech = any kind of renewable energy or environmental improvement capabilities.