Difficult decisions about who pays and who receives support would inspire difficult conversations about past injustices and current inequalities.

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.

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

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

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.

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?

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

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

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.