With synthetic biology we can produce the industrial basis of our civilization through natures own design instead of burning fossils: Capture CO2 and sunlight with algae to produce everything from biofuels to bioplastics in a renewable and climate positive way. Leverage the elegance of plants to align our culture with the planetary ecosystem.

Our civilization is fundamentally unsustainable: Ressource depletion, pollution and emission of CO2 gives our world a short lived outlook for the future. Many crucial ressources will be depleted in the coming decades, and the continuing emissions are locking the fate of our home in the trajectory towards an inhabitable planet. We are now ready to embrace the design of nature and fundamentally redesign how we interact with the carbon cycle, thus switching from a linear cradle-to-grave design to a circular cradle-to-cradle model. This is our next chapter.

The promise of a future with prosperity instead of turmoil and collapse is a great improvement for the lives of all people alive today and to come in future generations. Our consumption itself can become to process by which we capture CO2 from the atmosphere, allowing life to become sustainable and able to continue to improve indefinitely.