I never said that animal exploitation is good, just that it is ‘natural’ in the world. Solarpunk, as an idea, has everything to do with nature. Coexisting and living with it, rather than against it.

Is it wrong to use ladybugs as a form of pest control instead of harmful chemicals?

It’s it wrong to ride a horse around a farm instead of an ATV or even an electric UTV?

Additionally, the definition of exploitation can vary wildly from person to person, and even moreso between cultures. So imo, pretty much everything that happens in the animal kingdom is party of solarpunk. The “good” and the “bad.” As nothing is all good or all bad. Even murder can be justified in the most extreme cases (i.e. Hitler, Stalin, Trump, billionaire CEOs, etc )

I mean, animals are exploited by other animals all the time… The relationships can be mutually beneficial though or at least commensal (one species benefits while the other neither benefits nor is harmed)

There are wasps that mimic bees and take over their hives for their own breeding purposes.

Some prairie dogs use bird calls as a predator warning system, which the bird exploits to steal the prairie dog’s food.

Cuckoo birds lay their eggs in the nests of other birds to be raised by them

Some ants farm aphids for their sugary secretions

People were able to live side by side with so many animals over millennia without destroying entire populations. So I’d say that humans using animals instead of machines can be quite solarpunk.

I’m sure T-Mobile already accounted for this lawsuit into their yearly budget set aside for legal fines. If the fine is less than the profits they earned from leaving the security risk in place, which they almost certainly are, then this is just a case business as usual.

Honestly, there are many reasons… Poverty is a huge factor. Highly processed foods are usually the cheapest and most convenient option. And sometimes a soda can be cheaper to purchase than water. Also, school budgets are usually funded by property taxes, so areas in poverty have significantly degraded educational programs and facilities.

The poor education levels mean that people rarely learn about the impacts of high sugar diets on the body. People will feed their child a high sugar diet starting as early as a 2 years old. I’ve seen a document where a woman was feeding their toddler Mt dew out of a baby bottle…

Advertising techniques play a big role here too. Foods labeled as nutritious are actually just pumped full of sugar. Foods like yogurt, “bread”, granola bars, cereals, or anything with a sauce in it.

On top of all that, Americans have an extremely sedentary lifestyle. From sitting in cubicles to sitting in cars, then finally to the couch. The most walking people do is from the parking lot to the store/building they are going to.

I wish you could browse to see which airports are used. Could be a good resource for scheduling protests