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Imagine a vast circular chamber, its walls adorned with a towering painted map of Earth. Picture this hall resembling a theatre, with seating circles and galleries extending all the way around, including the space usually occupied by the stage. Enormous tiers of seating line the outer walls. Visualize 64,000 'computers' – humans performing calculations – each preparing a different weather forecast for their designated area. At the center of this hall, atop a multistorey pillar, stands the 'man in charge,' who coordinates these scattered weather calculations into a unified global forecast, much like a conductor leading an orchestra.

This 'forecast factory' was the dream of the 20th-century English mathematician and meteorologist Lewis Fry Richardson. In his book Weather Prediction by Numerical Process (1922), following pages of equations, velocities, and data, Richardson invites the reader to indulge in his fantasy: 'After so much hard reasoning, may one play with a fantasy?' Richardson understood that computational capacity was a major limitation on weather forecasting. Through his fantasy, he imagined overcoming practical issues to systematically predict the entire planet's weather.

Richardson passed away in 1953, the year IBM released its first mass-produced electronic computer. While his 'factory' never materialized exactly as he envisioned, his dream of a calculable planet now seems prophetic. By the 1960s, numerical calculation of global weather had become a standardized method of recording atmospheric changes. The sky was increasingly filled with clouds and data.

Since the 1960s, the scope of what Richardson called weather prediction has expanded dramatically. Climate models now explore both the deep past and future, encompassing not just the atmosphere but the entire Earth system. The remarkable aspect of this evolution is not merely that our technical capabilities have surpassed Richardson’s dreams, but the unforeseen ___________ of the modern 'forecast factory.' The calculable, predictable Earth has revealed not only aeons of global weather but has introduced a new kind of planet, and with it, a new mode of governance.

The planet has emerged as a new kind of political object. This is not the same planet of the Copernican revolution or the one seen by astronauts in the 1960s—Buckminster Fuller’s 'Spaceship Earth' or Carl Sagan’s 'lonely speck.' Those belong to the past millennium. I refer to the planet in the context of a 'planetary crisis': a planet recognized for its interconnected anthropogenic impacts, forming a complex web of processes that unfold over various timescales and geographies. This is the planet of the Anthropocene, central to the 'planetary emergency' highlighted by UN Secretary-General António Guterres in 2020. The so-called planetary turn represents a new way of thinking about our relationship with the environment. It also heralds the rise of a different governable entity, suggesting that the primary political object of the 21st century is no longer the state—it is the planet.