Timeslips creates a poetic frame for an audience to ponder the state of mind of an interplanetary agronomist as a mechanism to interrogate the ethics of terraforming and biosphere transformation on planetary scales. Humans have meddled with the earth for thousands of years, but confronted by the hyperobject of the climate crisis, we find ourselves in the midst of an overdue debate about when must—and should—we alter the environment, and how much is too much.