Climate change is destabilizing every economy. Weather disasters now displace 22–23 million people each year, with ~76 million already displaced. By 2050, up to 216 million people may be forced to migrate within their countries as homes become uninsurable, food systems fail, and infrastructure collapses. Anthropolis offers a solution: a network of human-scale, self-sustaining communities designed to absorb migration deliberately—turning forced displacement into planned, resil

Once hailed as the ultimate symbol of personal freedom and progress, the automobile has over time become the architect of our collective confinement — reshaping landscapes, economies, and even our perception of place.

Industrial agriculture reshaped food production around extractive, mechanistic models, replacing ecological systems with monocultures reliant on fossil fuels and chemicals. While boosting yields, it degraded soils, polluted water, reduced biodiversity, weakened resilience, lowered nutritional quality, and disconnected communities from food systems, creating long-term ecological and health risks.

Industrial tourism turns self-sustaining communities into service economies dependent on external demand. Local culture becomes a commodity, traditional livelihoods are displaced, ecosystems are degraded, and housing costs rise beyond local wages. Wealth and carbon costs are exported, while residents and future generations bear the social and ecological consequences.

Planned obsolescence—also called built-in or premature obsolescence—is the corporate strategy of designing products to fail after a set period, forcing consumers into repeat purchases. This practice artificially shortens product lifespans to maximize profit, raising fundamental questions about perfection, universality, and timeless design in a market-driven world.

Overpopulation is often framed as a personal or cultural issue: too many people making irresponsible choices. This framing is not only inaccurate—it obscures the real driver. Human population growth over the last two centuries has been shaped less by individual desire than by an economic system built on exponential growth, a model that requires perpetual expansion to survive.