Solarpunk is not punk because it shows a utopia, it is punk because it rejects the current state of the world. It is a banner and rallying cry.
@TakeV that's what differentiates solarpunk from ecomodernism. Solarpunk inherently rejects capitalism, instead embracing a decentralized, local, decolonized, anticapitalist world. Ecomodernism is capitalism, but not destroying the environment (as if that's even possible lmao). The way I heard it described to me is that if you can imagine it in a Studio Ghibli movie, it's solarpunk.
@TakeV solar-punk is interesting though due to it being a utopian punk aesthetic, compared to cyber-punk in which the focus is on finding pockets of warm comfort or burning revoultion in the dystopia, solar-punk is the utopian aftermath of a revoultion, unabashed hope in the future, cool stuff.