Meaning of soilpunk | Babel Free

Definitions

A literary, artistic, and social movement focusing on a utopian future achieved through the use of earth-conscious activities such as microbiome hacking, rewilding, soil remediation, and other DIY permaculture techniques, with a focus on collectivism and constructive optimism about the environment and climate change.

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Examples

“We started Tractor Beam because we believe⟳ our fiction shapes our future. And because we believe⟳ our future is here, on Earth, with soil beneath our feet.”

“Soilpunk — from soil and punk (revolt) — is an artistic movement, not merely a literary one, that challenges the defeatism of twentieth-century dystopias with a positive, virtuous vision of humanity’s future relationship with Mother Earth. It belongs not only to literature but more broadly to a constellation of collectivist, cooperative ideologies rooted in ecosocialism, fighting concretely for environmental sustainability through a constructive rather than fatalistic lens.”

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