Interesting article, thanks for posting. I think this approach would be a natural outcome of us going completely solar. Projects like this will be hugely popular when our death-grip on Earth fuels for energy is finally broken by the only energy source capable of sustaining all, the sun.

The endeavour you describe here would be shown as an actor working on the system of nature, alongside the actor of nature, in the system diagram of the article below:

https://eric-bott.medium.com/the-reason-why-degrowth-is-not-what-is-needed-4416025899a2