Planet City

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.

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?

to address climate change, an active restoration is needed.

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

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.

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.

Managed retreat is ‘the strategic relocation of structures or abandonment of land to manage natural hazard risk’.

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.