Earth for All: A Survival Guide for Humanity

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The report’s authors argue that achieving well-being for all on a (relatively) stable planet is still possible, but will require major changes in economic organization. In particular, it calls for five major initiatives to eliminate poverty, reduce inequality, empower women, transform food systems, and overhaul energy systems by “electrifying everything.” This is deeply worrying, because two of these three scenarios suggest a major collapse by mid-century while the third entails a smaller decline. Herrington argues that ‘humanity is on a path to having limits to growth imposed on itself rather than consciously choosing its own’. Five initiatives In the decades that followed, the report’s startling conclusions were probably more criticised than commended. Many brushed them aside as a doomsday scenario which human ingenuity and technological progress would render moot. But The Limits to Growth did not provide a single forecast. Rather, the authors explored several alternative paths based on different human strategies and recent research by Gaya Herrington has shown that three of the four scenarios they outlined align quite closely with empirical data.

Earth for All conclusively shows that humanity's future on a livable planet depends on drastically reducing socio-economic inequality and a more equitable distribution of wealth and power. Essential reading on our long journey toward an "Earth for All" society." This meeting is a ‘call to action’ to form an alliance to improve warnings of the proximity of catastrophic climate tipping points and to accelerate positive tipping points to avert the climate crisis. The programme will cover the latest developments in both negative and positive tipping points, at scales from local to global, and from theory to practice. Partners include PIK- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Exeter University.

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This latest, most urgent, and most carefully researched version of system science's scenarios for our human future is essential reading for collapse preventers everywhere. Whether its recommendations are taken up by policy makers everywhere – and whether we humans are therefore able to avert worldwide ecological, economic, and social breakdown sometime during the remainder of the 21st century – is up to all of us." Sheela Patel , founder and director, Society for Promotion of Area Resource Centres (SPARC), Mumbai The event is hosted by the Permanent Mission of Spain to the UN, the Permanent Mission of Costa Rica to the UN, and Earth4All. Earth4All: one future, two scenarios, one choice. Furthermore, the Earth for All report contains the results of a global modeling exercise that focuses specifically on two scenarios. The first, “Too Little Too Late,” is our current trajectory, in which governments and international institutions talk a lot about sustainability and climate change, but produce little transformative action.

The second scenario, The Giant Leap is achievable if societies adopt unprecedented and immediate action across five interconnected turnarounds:

In partnership with Project Everyone , Earth4All contributors will join climate leaders and decision makers at the Goals House in New York to open a week of events about our common future. From Science to Action: An Interactive Discussion It's time to shift from the age of endless growth to an age of thriving in balance. This thought-provoking analysis proposes five critical turnarounds for getting us there – each of them raising urgent issues for public discussion and action. Read on to explore possible futures for humanity and join the most vital debate of our times." Global food systems are clearly broken. They currently create unhealthy and unsustainable patterns of production and consumption, as well as enormous waste, and must be upgraded accordingly. Regulation of markets for the public good will be critical in this process. More systematic and effective regulation is necessary not only with respect to food, but also in markets for goods and services, finance, labor, and land, and to those connected to nature and the environment.

Finance experts Frank van Gansbeke and James Vaccaro will then complement this need for a new economic architecture with deep shifts in our current Bretton Woods institutions and financial framework that underpins an economy and financial system that services people, planet and prosperity first and foremost. Recent scientific assessments have shifted the climate debate from questions of “if” and “when” global warming will reach a certain point to the question of just how bad things will get. Anticipations of a hotter world have brought the issues of adaptation and climate justice to the fore. Join the Club of Rome co-president and coauthor of Earth forAll: A Survival Guide forHumanity,Sandrine Decléve-Dixson.For more on what computer modelling can and can’t do, see Erica Thompson’s book Escape from Model Land This is a usefully robust way to go about things. Lots of people have ideas that they think might make a difference, from basic incomes to four day working weeks. It’s not often that anyone models these properly. Would they increase or reduce inequality? What about emissions? Do they raise or lower social tensions? Do they lead to improved wellbeing? And putting all these ideas together, what kind of programme will lead to long term prosperity for everyone on a stable planet? It is feasible to redesign economic and social policies to put our societies on a pathway towards wellbeing for all within planetary boundaries. Earth4All contributors and supporters will rally this call for an economic system that works for people’s wellbeing. Join us. Make signs -use our policy recommendations. Support us in making this message as strong as possible for decision-makers. 50th anniversary of The Limits to Growth report and Donella Meadows celebration The English version of the book is available at the following links: https://geni.us/Earth4AllDE and https://newsociety.com/books/e/earth-for-all Health and Wealth of our Planet

On the radio the other day, I heard a spot on big cat conservation throughout the world. I'm paraphrasing the results, but basically places where inequality is high and economic opportunity is scant, are also the worst places for big cats right now. In other words, where people are forced to think in the short-term, natural resources are plundered.

Jorgen Randers, Professor Emeritus of Climate Strategy, BI Norwegian Business School, Co-Author of The Limits to Growth But all is not lost: The fourth scenario, which involved significant economic and social transformations, allows for widespread increases in human welfare within Earth’s natural boundaries. This is the motivation behind Earth for All, a new report produced by the Club of Rome’s Transformational Economics Commission (of which I am a member) and a team of computer modelers.



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