<story><title>Solar power is changing life deep in the Amazon</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/interactive/2024/amazon-solar-panels-ecuador/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RetroTechie</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m ~50&amp;#x2F;50 divided on whether humanity will reach some post-scarcity, Star Trek like utopia. In harmony with nature, and the interests of society-at-large as #1 motivation for most people.&lt;p&gt;Or that greed &amp;amp; selfishness will prevail and we lay this planet to waste, possibly removing our species in the process.&lt;p&gt;Stories like this strengthen my belief in the former. More, plz!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>epistasis</author><text>In Star Trek, there&amp;#x27;s still scarcity of Galaxy Class Starships, as well as great scarcity of commisions for captains of Galaxy Class Starships.&lt;p&gt;Once one thing becomes abundant, other things start to feel more scarce.&lt;p&gt;Where I live in California, we have an abundance of food, wealth, and materials for building homes. What is scarce is permission to actually build. Which sends housing prices through the roof, which then causes labor prices to go through the roof, which makes building itself more expensive.&lt;p&gt;The politics will always be challenging, and I think most examples in the real world point to the politics of distribution to be more challenging than the act of production.</text></comment>
<story><title>Solar power is changing life deep in the Amazon</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/interactive/2024/amazon-solar-panels-ecuador/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RetroTechie</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m ~50&amp;#x2F;50 divided on whether humanity will reach some post-scarcity, Star Trek like utopia. In harmony with nature, and the interests of society-at-large as #1 motivation for most people.&lt;p&gt;Or that greed &amp;amp; selfishness will prevail and we lay this planet to waste, possibly removing our species in the process.&lt;p&gt;Stories like this strengthen my belief in the former. More, plz!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NegativeLatency</author><text>For anyone else who feels similarly the genre &amp;quot;solarpunk&amp;quot; and specifically one of my favorite authors, Becky Chambers are worth checking out: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;A_Psalm_for_the_Wild-Built&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;A_Psalm_for_the_Wild-Built&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>