Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good.

I'd so much rather have exciting architecture that causes one to stop, breathe, and reflect on the potential of the human mind, the craft, and exploring things.

Carbon in your body - that's good thing. In a tree, it's good. In the atmosphere, it's a bad. Nature wants to sequester carbon in biota. And when we burn it, we release it. It's the wrong system.

If we think about things having multiple lives, cradle to cradle, we could design things that can go back to either nature or back to industry forever.

If you don't have an end game of something delightful, you're just moving chess pieces around.

And to use something as elegant as a tree? Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water, makes complex sugars and foods, changes colors with the seasons, and self-replicates. and then why don't we knock that down and write on it?

The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.