It's time to shift from the age of endless growth to an age of thriving in balance. This thought-provoking analysis proposes five critical turnarounds for getting us there -- each of them raising urgent issues for public discussion and action. Read on to explore possible futures for humanity and join the most vital debate of our times.
-Kate Raworth, author, Doughnut Economics
This tremendous collaboration, documented in this breathtaking book, provides yet more evidence that so much good can come out of pooling our minds and skills, to build a world that works for all. Why not opt for one-planet prosperity, if the alternative is one-planet misery?
-Mathis Wackernagel, Ph.D., founder, Global Footprint Network, co-author, Ecological Footprint
If we'd paid attention to The Limits to Growth in 1972, we wouldn't be in the fix we're in today; as the modeling in this book makes clear, what's left of this decade may be our last best hope to get it at least partly right.
-Bill McKibben, author, The End of Nature
This latest, most urgent, and most carefully researched version of system science's scenarios for our human future is essential reading for collapse preventers everywhere. Whether its recommendations are taken up by policy makers everywhere - and whether we humans are therefore able to avert worldwide ecological, economic, and social breakdown sometime during the remainder of the 21st century - is up to all of us.
-Richard Heinberg, senior fellow, Post Carbon Institute, author, Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival
An extraordinary book at an extraordinary time. For today and tomorrow's leaders, Earth for All is a must-read. This book offers a concrete, breakthrough vision on how to ensure well-being for all - in any country - on our finite planet. Together, we can build a world that is genuinely equitable by following the 5 Turnarounds - a roadmap to accelerate the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals in the next decade. I hope it will inspire a new movement of minds and souls that are willing to save our precious humanity.
-Ban Ki-moon, 8th Secretary General of the United Nations, and Deputy Chair of The Elders
Earth For All conclusively shows that humanity's future on a livable planet depends on drastically reducing socio-economic inequality and a more equitable distribution of wealth and power. Essential reading on our long journey toward an "Earth for All" society.
-Thomas Piketty, author, Capital in the Twenty-First Century and A Brief History of Equality
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
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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?
