The planetary mismatch

— human metabolic time (years, decades) operates against planetary metabolic time (centuries, millennia). Forests transition over decades. Oceans absorb carbon over centuries. Ice sheets respond over millennia. Every signal in this reading — from tariffs to AI to subcultures — unfolds against this background. We are making decisions in quarterly cycles about systems that respond in centennial cycles. The mismatch is not a problem to be solved; it is a condition to be acknowledged. The only hones ...