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Book Tour: Authors launching book at 77th UN general assembly in NY in September.
Promotion through the author's website www.earth4all.life.
Auteur
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?
Texte du rabat
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
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
Contenu
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