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Earth For All is an antidote to despair. Combining the global economy, population, inequality, food, and energy in a state-of-the art computer model, a leading group of scientists and economists present a plan of five system-shifting steps to achieve prosperity for all within planetary limits in a single generation.
List of contents
Contributors
Foreword by Christiana Figueres
Foreword by Elizabeth Wathuti
1. Earth for All: Five Extraordinary Turnarounds for Global Equity on a Healthy Planet
Breakdown or Breakthrough?
A Brief History of Future Scenarios
From The Limits to Growth to Planetary Boundaries
The Earth for All Initiative
People Support Economic Systems Change
2. Exploring Two Scenarios: Too Little Too Late or Giant Leap?
A Brief Review of 1980 to 2020
Scenario 1: Too Little Too Late
Scenario 2: The Giant Leap
Which Scenario Do We Co-create?
3. Saying Goodbye to Poverty
What Is Our Current Problem?
Turning Poverty Around
Solution 1: Expand Policy Space and Deal with Debt
Solution 2: Transform the Financial Architecture
Solution 3: Transform Global Trade
Solution 4: Improve Access to Technology and Leapfrogging
Barriers to the Solutions
Conclusions
4. The Inequality Turnaround: "Sharing the Dividends"
The Problems with Economic Inequality
A Giant Leap Toward Greater Equality
Overcoming Barriers to the Equality Levers
Conclusions
5. The Empowerment Turnaround: "Achieving Gender Equity"
Population
Turning It All Around
Transforming Education
Financial Independence and Leadership
A Secure Pension and Dignified Aging
Conclusions
6. The Food Turnaround: Making the Food System Healthy for People and Planet
Consuming Earth's Biosphere
Solution 1: Revolutionize the Way We Farm
Solution 2: Change Our Diets
Solution 3: Eliminate Food Loss and Waste
Barriers
Conclusions
7. The Energy Turnaround: "Electrifying Everything"
Challenges
Don't Look Up
Solution 1: Introduce Systemic Efficiency
Solution 2: Electrify (almost) Everything
Solution 3: Exponential Growth in New Renewables
The Energy Turnaround in the Earth4All Analysis
Barriers
Conclusions
8. From "Winner Take All" Capitalism to Earth4All Economies
A New Economic Operating System
The Rise of Rentier Capitalism
Rethinking the Commons in the Anthropocene
The Conventional Economic Gameboard
Redrawing the Gameboard
Short-termism: The Road to a Parasitic Financial System
Putting the Systems Change into Effect
How to Resolve the Systems Failure
Conclusions
9. A Call to Action
Is Earth for All Closer Than We Think?
A Chorus of Voices
Appendix: The Earth4All Model
Model Purpose
Model History
The Main Sectors in the Model
Model Causal Loop Diagram
Model Novelty
The Earth for All Game
Notes
Index
About the Authors
About the Publisher
About the author
Sandrine Dixson-Declève is co-president of the Club of Rome and has over 30 years of leadership in climate change, sustainability, innovation and energy. GreenBiz named her one of the 30 most influential women driving change in the low-carbon economy. She is a policy advisor, facilitator, TED speaker, teacher, and author of Quel Monde Pour Demain?
Summary
Earth For All is an antidote to despair. Combining the global economy, population, inequality, food, and energy in a state-of-the art computer model, a leading group of scientists and economists present a plan of five system-shifting steps to achieve prosperity for all within planetary limits in a single generation.
Foreword
- Print Run 10,000
- Co-op Available
- Galleys Available
- National advertising, reviews, and excerpts: Library Journal, Sierra Magazine, Mother Jones, Yes! Magazine
- Online/social media campaign
- Facebook Live event and giveaway with authors
- Outreach to Earth4All network of influencers,climate organizations, policy makers, academics
- Promotion on New Society Publishers social media platforms
- Promotion via members of the Club of Rome
- Book Tour: Authors launching book at 77th UN general assembly in NY in September.
- Sunday 18 September
19:00 – 22:00 ET, event launch
Venue: Goals House, Tavern on the Green, NYC
- Tuesday 20 September - presentation
Venue: NY City Winery, New York, USA
- Tuesday 20 September - presentation
11:00-13:00 ET
Venue: UNGA Science Summit Side Event - Instituto Cervantes, NYC
- Wednesday 21 September - presentation
10:00-12:00 ET (tbc)
Venue: Goals House, Tavern on the Green, NYC
- Wednesday 28 September - 50th Anniversary of the Report to the Club of Rome and Donella Meadows
Venue: Middlebury College, Vermont
- Promotion through the author's website www.earth4all.life.
