Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
- The valley is important because it is one of the only safe places for people to live. It shows how survival depends on the environment and people’s relationship with it.
- The Valley survives because of the strong winds that keep the toxic spores away.
Princess Mononoke
- Standing up for what you believe in, even when other think you are wrong
- Iron town is taking its own resources (unsustainability is coming back to bite them)
- locations are characters in the story
- people of Iron Town don’t care about surroundings and serve their own agenda
- forest spirits care so much about forest and doing everything in their power
Both:
- Standing up for what you believe in, even when other think you are wrong
- Humans relationship with nature
- Freedom
Individualism – Freedom
Socialism – Responsibility
Metabolism – Reciprocity
Solar Punk
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It imagines a future where technology and nature work together in balance
- hopeful alternative to dystopian futures
- creative technologies
List of 3 Inspirational Models
- WALL·E – shows a future where Earth is ruined by waste, stressing the need to care for the environment
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Avatar – shows the problem of exploiting natural resources and respecting the land and its people
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The Lorax – warns about the dangers of over-industrialization and the loss of nature
