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It is. The difference is cyberpunk is "this is what will happen if we don't fight back against the system" and Solarpunk is "this is what we could have if we DO fight back against the system".
There are also problems in solarpunk worlds, they're just different from our own present day issues. It's like, we solved the climate crisis, but there is still an ever expanding frontier of injustice to rally against.
It only looks like a Utopia if you have 000 hope for the future
Solarpunk is often displayed as pretty post apocalyptic, but in a green, scrapper, free way