I mean, let’s be honest: People do crimes even when they have no material need to do so, so you will always need some form of law enforcement, how should a solarpunk society handle this?
The same is true for a military: As long as there is no world peace or some magical way to shut the outside world out, and as long as other societies exist somewhere nearby (and in today’s world this means somewhere on the same planet), a society needs the means to defend itself… what would this look like?
Over the last day, while traveling without much internet access (but with Kiwix and tons of material on my laptop) i used the time to dive a bit deeper into the question i asked myself. I think now that with things like 3D printers (perhaps even more advanced versions that we have today), distributed construction and distributed but highly connected guerilla groups a conflict could be made somewhat winable / surviveable for a solarpunk society.
I asked the question in the first place because i am currently dabbling a bit into writing and after first drafting some sort of detective story i am now more inclined to pivot to a bit of a “solarpunk society gets invaded by a conventional state” story…