While I agree with her message regarding embracing joy and looking toward building things up and following a vision (I’m a solarpunk after all), I have some reservations with some of her other points, which ring a little too closely with new-age spiritualism for me, such as when she mentions that capitalist pharma discredited herbal medicines and alternative indigenous healing methods in order to push profit. Which, while true in some cases, shouldn’t dismiss how the scientific method has also shown how many traditional alternative medicines and practices can be nothing more than a placebo or even outright harmful.

Yes, modern medicine is a soulless and equally harmful profit machine, but the scientific method is simply a tool that can be used for either collective good or for harmful profit. It is not an evil in itself, but the system around it which incentivizes that evil.