Sandrine Dixson-Declève, Owen Gaffney, Jayati Ghosh, Jorgen Randers, Johan Rockström, Per Espen Stoknes. Earth for All - a survival guide for humanity. The Club of Rome. New Society Publishers. Gabriola Island. 2022.

1. Authors' website, archived
2. Sandrine Dixson-Declève on TED or direct
3. Johan Rockström on TED
4. Per Espen Stoknes on TED

Small book summarizes the update and follow-up from the "Limits to Growth" study from the 1970s. Completely indicts the world I was born into and had to live in.

Results described include:

• key factors needing change
• solution descriptions
• 15 policy recommendations
• calls to action for governments
• calls to action for citizens (individuals)

Let's

• play the game
• take action

Updates: Bluesky - Earth4All

Supplementary Information

• Interview with Club of Rome
• EU Joint Research Centre

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

  • Eliminate Poverty
  • Eliminate Inequality
  • Empower Women
  • Improve Food Production
  • Improve Energy Use
• People Support Economic Systems Change

2 Exploring Two Scenarios: Too Little Too Late or Giant Leap?

• Sidebar: What is Well Being
  • Wellbeing Economic Alliance
    • Dignity
    • Nature
    • Connection
    • Fairness
    • Participation
  • Earth4All Wellbeing Index
    • Dignity - after tax disposable income
    • Nature - global surface average temperature
    • Connection - government common good spending per person
    • Fairness - ratio of owner income after tax to worker income after tax
    • Participation - observed progress and labour participation in community and economy
• A Brief Review of 1980 to 2020
• Scenario 1: Too Little Too Late
  • Scenario Too Little Too Late: The Decisive Decade 2020-2030
  • Scenario Too Little Too Late: 2030-2050
  • Scenario Too Little Too Late: 2050 and beyond
• Scenario 2: The Giant Leap
  • Scenario Giant Leap: The Decisive Decade 2020-2050
  • Scenario Giant Leap: 2030-2050
  • Scenario Giant Leap: 2050 and Beyond
• Which Scenario Do We Co-Create?
• Sidebar: How Good is the Earth4All Model?

3 Saying Goodbye to Poverty

• What Is Our Current Problem?
  • Issue 1: A Shrunken Policy Space
  • Issue 2: Destructive Trade Architecture
  • Issue 3: Hurdles to Technological Access
• 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 Solutions
  • Multilateral Institutions
  • Perceived and Actual Corruption
  • Arbitration and Litigation
• Conclusions

4 The Inequality Turnaround: "Sharing the Dividends"

• The Problems with Economic Inequality
  • Skewed Political Power
  • Overconsumption Among the Rich
  • Enclosure of the Commons = Privatization
  • Warning: Disruption Ahead
  • Measuring Inequality
• A Giant Leap Toward Greater Equality
  • Progressive Redistribution of Income and Wealth
  • Economic Democracy: Retraining and Empowering Workers
  • Introducing Citizen Funds and a Universal Basic Dividend
• Overcoming Barriers to the Equality Levers
• Conclusions

5 The Empowerment Turnaround: "Achieving Gender Equity"

• Population
• Turning It All Around
• Transforming Education
  • Our Schools Were Designed for a Different Era
  • Cost Still Bars Millions of Children from 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

• Potential Gains
  • an end to poverty in one generation
  • greater equality among people and nations
  • healthy people in a healthy biosphere
  • abundant clean, cheap energy
  • fresh air
  • gender equity
  • economic resilience and security
  • population stabilization
  • a livable biosphere
  • gain back a future
• Is Earth for All Closer Than We Think?
  • social movements--the voice of the future
  • crossing an economic tipping point
  • technology--disruption is coming
  • accelerating political momentum
• A Chorus of Voices
• Sidebar: Fifteen Policy Recommendations
• Calls to Action
  • Governments
    • transform polarization to social cohesion
    • share wealth more fairly
    • act in the interests of future generations, keep institutions that help current generation do it
    • value wellbeing over financial growh
    • engage with citizens about what matters for society
    • foster long-term commitment and investment
  • Citizens
    • join movements
    • elect politicians who value the future
    • wherever, start conversations about how the economic transformation we need will affect you, your family, your job, your life
      • How can you benefit from it?
      • How can it improve your career, your education?
      • Is this society transformation an opportunity to follow your dream, to change course?
    • in your town, city or country, demand a citizens' assembly on economic systems change; a wise way to navigate contentious political issues
    • ask your local and national politicians to act to bring our societies closer to Earth for All

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