Greening 2 <Chrome>

Two years. That was all the time Earth had left before the last carbon buffer collapsed. Two years before the planet’s self-regulating systems—already wheezing and fractured—would enter a terminal cascade. She had been the lead architect of Project Phoenix, the global effort to re-green the planet. They had planted forests the size of continents, scrubbed oceans with molecular sieves, and fed plankton blooms that could be seen from Saturn’s orbit.

She wasn’t sure if it was a harvest or a second chance. greening 2

Dr. Elara Mbeki stared at the holographic display floating above her wrist. The number was blinking: Two years

“Show me the oldest node,” she whispered. scrubbed oceans with molecular sieves