Planet City

Carbon removal or carbon drawdown is widely recognised as a requirement.

A third part of the work involves carbon capture and geological injection underground, into rock formations where it can be stored safely for millennia.

Warehouses, department stores, strip malls, airports and all the rest are ‘an increasingly complex network of interlocking carbon forms’.

As we write stories, we write the world—and in this way storytelling can be considered a critical act of design.

if there is one element that recurs and stands out for cities, it is the making and using of vertical options.

the path towards Planet City runs through political revolution. The paradox of Planet City is that at the current rate of social change, by the time the need for Planet City has fully dawned, the political and financial capacity to build it may be too far eroded to realise it.

We are all already living in a planetary city, a distributed mega structure hiding in plain sight.

The future is broken and we are left stranded in the long now, doomscrolling idly, waiting out the end of the end of the world.

It stands as evidence that climate change is no longer a technological problem, but rather an ideological one, rooted in culture and politics.

Planet City is built entirely from sustainable technologies that are already here, but that just lack the cultural investment or political will to implement them at scale.