This story may sound familiar: a perilous location of global capitalism, extracting Indigenous territories in the global south, ravaging local ecosystems, reliant on exploitable labor, yet a parable of economic growth and development. This narrative documents one such location and it asks: how must this change to consider planetary scales? How can it offer different paradigms to reckon with our planet undergoing Anthropocenic change? This text explores how we might learn to think at planetary scales, by asking critical questions from an ethnographic account along the seams of global exchanges of cement manufacturing. In doing so, it attempts to articulate practices and conceptual responses beyond extraction in the Khasi and Jaintia Hills along the India-Bangladesh border.