Climate is one issue domain. The planet is the coupled system of bio, geo and tech processes that the issue sits inside, and that's the unit I want to analyse. Treat climate as a standalone policy problem and you'll keep fixing the wrong thing.
How the word moved
Back in Feb 2018 climate was already just the C in my ABC of planetarity, next to Animals and Brains. By Aug 2025 I'd spelled it out in the first Weekly Planet as "Why Planet > Climate", with three limits of a climate-only frame. Same intuition, seven years apart - I just got around to saying it out loud.
In my words
"climate is an issue domain; “planet” names a coupled system"
from Bhumics: The Weekly Planet #1, 25 Aug 2025
Related
- Related Planet - the planet is the unit of analysis I'm asking for.
- Related Climate Leviathan - the climate regime presumed Western coordination, and that's one of the limits.
- Related Planetarity - climate is the C in planetarity's ABC.
- Related Technosphere - the technosphere is part of the planetary system, so a climate-only frame misses it.