Nirile

It's interesting to me that the conversation has shifted so far from ecological footprinting to carbon footprinting. I don't think the Navajo Nation would agree that nuclear energy creates less emissions that coal. The mining and end life of nuclear energy is just too toxic for me to ever consider it clean or green.

Of course, I also have an issue with hydropower, so 🤷🏻

I mean, usually the whole business model is set up to enable walking away!

Yes, talking about abandoned sites. Even with progressive reclamation clauses, it's always such a matter of local regulatory buy-in, funds to achieve the restoration, and the firms/companies actually committed to progress restoration practices.

It's a symptom of how remediation and restoration currently occurs. So often sites just languish untill a developer comes in. These sites left to manage on their own can yeild usuful information about revegation/rewilding however.

To add to that, with the changing climate, species are moving northward, so I would say it would be helpful to check and see what species migration might look like in your area.

I would also highly recommend checking out any indigenous groups in your area. In the US many Native Nations have climate action plans that talk about species migration.

Also, when possible, incorporate habitat needs in your slections.

It's crazy to me that Germany still has such a dirty grid. I had a German economics professor like 20 years ago that was telling us all the aggressive actions Germany was taking to reach carbon neutrality. What happened?

I like this take. Isn't solar punk itself a "counter-take" to the overwhelming distopian future visions? I've always said, we need to clearly describe the future we hope for so people know what we are working towards.