solarpunk memes

Sure, it's a big tent, if all you want is the "solar" part and not the "punk" part you can participate in that half 😆

But the "punk" in solarpunk refers to left anarchist politics and rebellion against the capitalist economic machine, and has ever since the term was invented. I'ma borrow from this Reddit post that answers your question quite well:

The punk comes from DIY attitude. Build-your-own-robot.

The punk comes from mutalist, anarchist, decentralized organization, like in Ursula LeGuin's dispossessed.

The solar panel itself implies anarachy as people provide power for themselves rather than rely on a central plant or authority. And yet by networking your homesteads together in a horizontal mutalist way you provide insurance agianst variance in both supply and demand.

Without the punk, you just have techno optimism, e.g. the Picards on their vinyard without a care in the world because the Federation can provide all their needs without effort, probably with fusion power or something even more fantastic.

Nope. Capitalism is the name of the cause of that doomerism.

You don’t have to be a dirty commie to be solarpunk, but I am personally very adamant that none of the solarpunk vision can come true without a fundamental re-jiggering of our economic mindset.