Henry HARPER and Elon MUSK – Torreblanca 2030, Forest Planet

In a world on the brink of collapse, a small Mediterranean town becomes the stage for a planetary rebirth. In Torreblanca, Castellón, Carmen ORTIZ, a visionary young mayor, and her friend Laura BODIS, a gifted woman with rare intuition, consult seven experts in geoengineering around the radical vision of Henry HARPER, who calls upon Elon MUSK to join him. HARPER has unveiled the process for creating a terrestrial Pandora, a rewilded planet where humanity would learn once again to breathe in harmony with nature. Blending environmental science, geobiology, and the poetry of living systems, this novel sketches the outlines of a planetary re-enchantment. The Vegetal Calderas, living plant-covered towers capable of emitting electromagnetic fields, condensing water from the air, and healing the soil, form the first threads of an ecology of worlds: a network of balance where technology becomes an ally of life. From Spain to the equatorial forests of the Congo Basin in Africa, from Cameroon to the Sea of Japan, bioclimatic corridors expand, creating artificial flying rivers that connect peoples, wildlife, and the planet's vital energies. This is the natural geoengineering of the EL4DEV program, a project both utopian and concrete and a geostrategy of life standing in opposition to the logic of conquest. Where MUSK seeks to build colonies on Mars, HARPER chooses to regenerate Earth and transform it into a forest planet. A short work of visionary speculative fiction and ecological manifesto, this book brings reason and myth, science and consciousness, into dialogue. What if the true human adventure of the 21st century were no longer to leave the Earth, but to re-terraform it?