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Ok, let me address the punk thing.
Punks are people who resist oppressions and who defy rules, mostly censorship and mostly in arts. Singing profanities in a democracy and doing things that are legal is fashion-punk. As soon as improving your community, and progressing towards more acceptance and inclusiveness is legal, you don't need to be punk anymore.
Punks have no future because their own fight is to make them irrelevant. It is to turn a fascist society into one that does not need them, one where it is effective to engage in social works and to collaborate with public institutions.
Solarpunk is a joke on "cyberpunk", that's all. It is an utopian movement in which punks are irrelevant.
If you want to write punk stories in a solarpunk setting, then you need to construct a dystopian antagonist.
And we don't actually live in that society yet, and therefore protesting, feeding people, helping drug addicts, and doing odd jobs for your neighbors all remain punk af.
JFC. Selling food without a permit is illegal. Doing most home repairs without a license and permit is illegal. If I install a set of solar panels for my neighbor and she pays me in raw milk and eggs we could both be arrested. Don't tell me helping your community isn't punk.
It's only illegal to do so if you don't have proper qualifications, which you can easily pay for. Of course, that's not punk, but not everything has to be punk if your intention is helping others.
Proper qualifications for sharing food?
Yeah, nah. Punk is resisting the state and it’s ridiculous rules. If a rule is good, we can follow it without an oppressive regime to tell us what we can and can’t do.
My point was that you have to choose which is more important. Is helping people RIGHT NOW important to you or is helping people in the future, sometimes in a more LASTING way, more important. Sometimes the message is more important, but that won't always also also help people who are struggling right now. If you want to help people right now then it is better to go through the proper channels so bullshit laws can't slow you down.