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.
So what’s being said here is that we could end up having an environmental disaster caused by Jeff Bezos’s balls.
