Earth for All

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.

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.

BOOK AWARDS

• FINALIST | 2022 Foreword INDIES - Ecology & Environment

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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