Planet City

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

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

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

Planet City may be more generative if we consider it to be a temporary destination. What if it was a place to retreat to while giving time for carbon removal and regeneration, while actively restoring the climate?

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

to address climate change, an active restoration is needed.

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

Seminal biologist Edward O Wilson has written on his “Half Earth” proposal, an “achievable plan” to stave off mass extinction by devoting half the surface of the earth completely to nature.

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.