In our long delayed recap episode for our Solarpunk season, Caroline and Carly reflect on what they have learned about how to organize society.

Our Solar punk books were:

1. Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach Book Club
2. A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers Book Club
3. The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk Book Club
4. Suncatcher by Alia Gee Book Club
5. The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin Book Club
6. Emergency Skin by N.K. Jemisin Book Club
7. Seveneves by Neal Stephenson Book Club
8. Earth Abides by George R. Stewart Book Club
9. Walkaway by Cory Doctorow Book Club

Concepts and genre themes discussed: creative use of technology as a net benefit to mankind, progressive worldview, a relationship to the meaning of life, a relationship to the Earth.

They also discuss what kind of luxuries or status is required to give up in order to make a better society and their willingness to make those changes. What are you willing to give up?

These books brought up questions of the balance between freedom and coercion to find the most human flourishing, when does major societal change happen, how to resolve disputes peacefully, what does it mean to have faith?

Carly and Caroline also talk about which books they would read again and which books they would not read again.