Earth for All - A Survival Guide for Humanity

The economic operating system keeps crashing. It's time to upgrade to a new one.

An extraordinary book at an extraordinary time. —BAN KI-MOON, 8th Secretary General of the United Nations

Read on to explore possible futures for humanity and join the most vital debate of our times. —KATE RAWORTH, author, Doughnut Economics

Should be discussed by all the parliaments of the world. —VANESSA NAKATE, founder, Africa-based Rise Up Movement

FIVE DECADES AGO, The Limits to Growth shocked the world. For the first time, it charted how population and industrial growth were pushing humanity towards a cliff. Today we are at the cliff edge: Earth has crossed multiple planetary boundaries. On top of that, widespread inequality is causing deep social instabilities, making it even more difficult to address our crises. People are calling for systems change. But what does that mean?

For the first time, Earth For All lays out what systems change really means for civilization. It is both an antidote to despair and a roadmap to a better future. Using groundbreaking computer modeling, leading scientists and economists show how five extraordinary turnarounds are needed urgently to achieve prosperity for all within planetary limits within a single generation.

This unique analysis explores:

• A clear pathway to reboot our global economic system
  
  


• Two alternative scenarios this century – Too-Little-Too-Late vs The Giant Leap


• Five system-shifting steps that can upend poverty and inequality and transform our food and energy systems by 2050.
  
  

Accessible and inspirational, this survival guide for humanity is required reading for everyone concerned about living well on a fragile planet.

Collapse is still avoidable; here's how. —BILL McKIBBEN, author, The End of Nature

For the first time we have a narrative about our future that is neither utopia nor collapse and that is endorsable across the political spectrum. —CARLOTA PEREZ, author, Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital

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.

Product details

• Authors: Sandrine Dixson-Decleve, Sandrine Gaffney Dixson-Decleve, Owen Gaffney, Jaya Ghosh, Jayati Ghosh, Jorgen Randers, Johan Rockstrom, Per Espen Stoknes
• Publisher: New society publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2022
• EAN: 9780865719866
• ISBN: 978-0-86571-986-6
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 12 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business; SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Climate Change, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, Political Economy, Central / national / federal government policies, New Economics, Central government policies