"The key question today is how it (Mollem & therefore the planet) can be repaired, reproduced, sustained and cared for, made durable, preserved and universally shared, and under what conditions it ends. Overall, these debates about how life on Earth can be reproduced and sustained and under what conditions it ends are forced upon us by the epoch itself, characterised as it is by the impending ecological catastrophe and by technological escalation. I am not sure that they can be properly answered  from a purely market logic perspective that addresses life as a commodity to be manipulated and replicated under conditions of volatility."

- Achille Mbembe,  Cameroonian philosopher, Thoughts on Planetary Habitability.