I've been reading Becky Chambers' A Psalm for the Wild-Built, which is about as solarpunk as you can get.

And I've been moved almost to tears at several moments -- mainly little details of the setting that highlight how badly the author wishes this could be the way things worked, and also how far we are from it in reality.

To be specific -- the part where Dex is talking about their pocket computer, which they got for their 16th birthday and is obviously built for life as all computers are.

Also the simple fact that they can have a vocation as a tea monk. And that everyone in these villages is dealing with only small problems -- no structural unemployment, no hollowing out of rural populations, no displacement from industry etc.

It's a big dream, and it's a good dream.

And I don't think it's impossible, but we're so, so far away from it.