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@InvaderXan @soft hi, which city do i have to move to get this?

@meena @soft A better question would be, how can we make every city like this?

@InvaderXan @meena @soft (looked at the picture for 2 minutes like "is that Paris?" before realizing there was an eiffel tower at the back xD)

this is very very nice

@furkachi @meena @soft It's a future we could have, too. If we collectively choose to.

@InvaderXan @meena @soft Oh very much so

eeeeexcept we'd have to be careful i guess about the recuperation of similar designs and architectures in the creation of a pseudo-ecological message of putting trees in glass buildings while producing electricity from fossil fuels or creating it through the exploitation of 3rd world countries

(it's my only issue with the solarpunk aesthetics, which I do greatly enjoy tbh)

@InvaderXan Oh yeah that's very fucking true ! And hopefully anyone pushing forward these ideas will definitely be careful of that.

Then again, looking at how 'Queer' and 'Gay culture' have been recuperated, and seeing as we're square hit in the middle of "green is good", I'm kinda scared someone's gonna end up trying

@furkachi We just need to keep a critical mind and be wary of green capitalism and suchlike. Some are making a true attempt to improve the world. Others just want to give that impression so they can sell you stuff and maintain the status quo.

Greenwashing isn't hard to see through if you know what to look for, and you take a little time to think about it.

@InvaderXan And hopefully it stays that way to be honest. With very large transnational holdings and corporations owning more and more stuff, to the point where the vegan simili-meat you're buying may be sold by a company owned by another company that's committing awful ecological crimes (food related or not), I'm scared it's going to get more and more obfuscated.

But that's very much my fatalist side, and probably giving them too much credit to be honest x3

@meena @soft Building upwards will enable humanity to stop building outwards and leave more space for nature to coexist with us, instead of consuming nearly all available land with human habitats and/or agriculture. But that's just my opinion.

@InvaderXan @soft i know. it's just that after the 3rd storeys, people stop acting like humans below the 3rd storey, and especially, they stop interacting with other humans
if we could make buildings high, and humane, that would be really good, but i feel like not enough research has gone into that

@meena A valid point. Though I've known plenty of people who're like that without highrise buildings being involved. And I've experienced a lot more people being awful for no reason while living at ground level. I'd rather live on the 8th floor and have less interaction than live on the ground and have that interaction involve people poisoning my plants, throwing garbage in my garden, and menacing my cat.

The problem IMO is more about society than what buildings we live in.

@InvaderXan maybe a healthier society can live healthy in any structure, who knows

@meena I believe so TBH. Communities can form anywhere.