The Terraforming

Climate change’s epistemic challenge to everyone is that the entire world has become an exercise in interpreting artificiality.

Of all the artificial effects and patterns that really matter, the impossible-to-sort absolute boundaries between what is and is not anthropogenic climate change are the most consequential encounter with the artificial.

The nature/culture divide didn’t protect what it called nature, even as it elevated the notion to a transcendental ideal.

failures to comprehend and compose viable planetary systems.

The question of automation is inside the question of climate change and cannot be successfully engaged otherwise, while the question of climate change is inside the question of automation and cannot be addressed otherwise.

gain, a conceptual model develops a technical system to extend how it understands the world, but what is revealed about the world by that technical system undermines the conceptual model that made way for the technical system

surveillance” of carbon flows is a good thing;

recognizing our own cognition and industry as manifestations of a material world acting upon itself in regular intelligent patterns. In this sense, the artificiality that concerns us is not the fake versus the authentic, but the artificial as the trace of intention and design within patterns of emergence and vice versa. It is a way to recognize agency by measuring the regularity of its consequential traces.

The responses to anthropogenic climate change must be equally anthropogenic. To be successful, they must be adamantly and unapologetically artificial.

Copernican turn also means the reorganization of the Earth not only as it “truly is,” but as it may be.19 The traumatic difficulty of the turn comes from our own evolutionary accomplishments.