aspiringwarriorlibrarian:

niggazinmoscow:

We’re building our own science fiction dystopia.

Plants from 50 different countries….you know what that sounds like?  A recipe for invasive species. It doesn’t look like they give a damn about containment, either, so if even one of those 40,000 plants has incompatible allelochemicals or an enemy release mechanism, Seattle’s native flora is screwed. This is not nature, it’s a Frankensteinian parody of it that could never exist on its own but has been artificially kept up to flaunt its owner’s wealth.

The perfect example of what the rich want nature to be like: contained and commodified at high prices for their own personal use and with all the necessary but inconvenient parts of an ecosystem excised, while the lower class labor in concrete jungles because their own environments have been destroyed and desperately fight over the chance to just see a bit of green again.

If you ever need an example of the exact opposite of solar punk, this is it. A sanitized version of nature for the elite, built off the backs of exploited people and ecological destruction.

How are people going to do office things without desks? 

Does nobody have any private space where they can put things and have them not messed with?

How are they gonna keep it humid enough for the plants without it being miserable for people? 

How are they gonna keep the plants both bug-free and healthy? 

It’d be a lot easier to take a regular office building and just put terrariums and small container gardens everywhere, maybe have a few central garden areas, than to do this. Could be mostly native and/or edible plants with some exotics, with all the exotics kept in terrariums so they can’t get out. 

It’s not just anti-solarpunk, it’s a bad idea. Take an office building, modify it slightly to add garden areas and potted plants, maybe a butterfly house or something in the main building if you wanna get real fancy, add a room or two with cats you can go and pet, that’s calming, then put all the rest of however much money that was into giving the /rest/ of your employees the ability to not work themselves into an early grave trying not to starve.