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Low Tech Magazine remains a great sourcebook for an alt-history novel or role playing campaign. Its advice has increasingly diverged from efficient paths toward sustainability/decarbonization as the high tech approaches (advanced solar, wind, nuclear, batteries, electric vehicle, heat pumps...) continue to improve.

Over the past 20 years I have noticed this tendency among a subset of people people in the environmental movement. Some people loved solar power only when it was expensive and small scale. A future world powered by solar once evoked images of cozy little villages, bicycles, deglobalization, handmade wooden toys, and a slower pace of life. Now that solar power is inexpensive and scalable, it's unappealing to people who value the cozy aesthetic more than they value meeting quantifiable IPCC emissions targets.