Earth for All - A Survival Guide for Humanity

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

Five decades ago, The Limits to Growth shocked the world by showing that population and industrial growth were pushing humanity towards a cliff. Today the world recognizes that we are now at the cliff edge: Earth has crossed multiple planetary boundaries while widespread inequality is causing deep instabilities in societies. There seems to be no way out.

Earth For All is both an antidote to despair and a road map to a better future. Using powerful state-of-the-art computer modeling to explore policies likely to deliver the most good for the majority of people, a leading group of scientists and economists from around the world present five extraordinary turnarounds to achieve prosperity for all within planetary limits in a single generation. Coverage includes:
Results of new global modeling that indicates falling well-being and rising social tensions heighten risk of regional societal collapses

Two alternative scenarios - Too-Little-Too-Late vs The Giant Leap - and what they mean for our collective future

Five system-shifting steps that can upend poverty and inequality, lift up marginalized people, and transform our food and energy systems by 2050

A clear pathway to reboot our global economic system so it works for all people and the planet.

Written in an open, accessible, and inspirational style using clear language and high impact visuals, Earth For All is a profound vision for uncertain times and a map to a better future.

This survival guide for humanity is required reading for everyone concerned about living well on a fragile planet.

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Sommario

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

Info autore

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?

Riassunto

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.

Prefazione

• 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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Sandrine Dixson-Decleve, Sandrine Gaffney Dixson-Decleve, Owen Gaffney, Jaya Ghosh, Jayati Ghosh, Jorgen Randers, Johan Rockstrom, Per Espen Stoknes
• Editore: New society publishing
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.09.2022
• EAN: 9780865719866
• ISBN: 978-0-86571-986-6
• Pagine: 208
• Dimensioni: 155 mm x 230 mm x 12 mm
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Altro; 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