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I wrote a bunch of words in opposition to your statement, but after reading your other response, it is clear to me that you have a completely different view of mental health, and what solarpunk looks like. And I don't think you have taken a lot of transitional information, disability information, racial information, gender information, economic information, educational information, or a few other things into account in your response.
It would be really helpful for further discussion if you backed up your reasoning with a direct refution of something they said. Even if it's just an example. It's a lot easier to keep discussing where we need more intersectional viewpoints if we know what you find lacking.
I didn't think the obvious things like people who are disabled or have things like ADHD needed explanation, to be fair. And those things are basic enough to me to warrant a refute of the poster's reasoning.
I'm sorry I'm not seeing a seemingly obvious connection.
We already consider disabilities and ADHD in the mental health continuum; so it's not clear to me why would this need to change for solarpunk.
I would love to hear what needs to be changed specific to solarpunk, but may I suggest we close this specific comment line and focus on the other one?
I'd love to hear them.
I career changed out of the psychology field quite some time ago, and even then I only worked a specific subset; so that will obviously influence my biases, though I'm pretty sure I'm awaiof all of them. I also try to keep current, but will never claim recency.
Has the mental health continuum/scale changed? I may have some archaisms or mis-translations in there.
I'd be interested in what's biasing your views of mental health to help us find common ground.
Correct. These are environmental factors to mental health, and they wildy vary. These need to be considered regionally and individually, but nomoreso than they already are. These also can't be considered wholesale for all of solarpunk because of their regional nature. I
f you have one specific solarpunk community, we can certainly dive in; but I can't think of any that would apply to all solarpunk and only solarpunk. That's not to say their aren't any, maybe you have some ideas?
Our views probably diverge from the solarpunk manifesto. I take a more activist than scifi view, if that helps us find common ground.
I look forward to hearing your response. My guess is I have the professional background and you have the visionary spirit. This can often lead to a great partnership.