Table of Contents
Contributors xiii
Foreword Christiana Figueres xvii
Foreword Elizabeth Wathuti xix
1 Earth for All: Five Extraordinary Turnarounds for Global Equity on a Healthy Planet l
Breakdown or Breakthrough? 4
A Brief History of Future Scenarios 9
From The Limits to Growth to Planetary Boundaries 13
The Earth for All Initiative 19
People Support Economic Systems Change 25
2 Exploring Two Scenarios: Too Little Too Late or Giant Leap? 27
A Brief Review of l980 to 2020 33
Scenario 1: Too Little Too Late 35
Scenario 2: The Giant Leap 45
Which Scenario Do We Co-create? 53
3 Saying Goodbye to Poverty 57
What Is Our Current Problem? 59
Turning Poverty Around 63
Solution 1: Expand Policy Space and Deal with Debt 64
Solution 2: Transform the Financial Architecture 65
Solution 3: Transform Global Trade 67
Solution 4: Improve Access to Technology and Leapfrogging 68
Barriers to the Solutions 69
Conclusions 71
4 The Inequality Turnaround: "Sharing the Dividends" 75
The Problems with Economic Inequality 78
A Giant Leap Toward Greater Equality 86
Overcoming Barriers to the Equality Levers 90
Conclusions 92
5 The Empowerment Turnaround: "Achieving Gender Equity" 93
Population 96
Turning It All Around 98
Transforming Education 100
Financial Independence and Leadership 103
A Secure Pension and Dignified Aging 105
Conclusions 106
6 The Food Turnaround: Making the Food System Healthy for People and Planet 107
Consuming Earth's Biosphere 109
Solution 1: Revolutionize the Way We Farm 112
Solution 2: Change Our Diets 116
Solution 3: Eliminate Food Loss and Waste 119
Barriers 121
Conclusions 123
7 The Energy Turnaround: "Electrifying Everything" 127
Challenges 129
Don't Look Up 131
Solution 1: Introduce Systemic Efficiency 132
Solution 2; Electrify (almost) Everything 134
Solution 3: Exponential Growth in New Renewables 135
The Energy Turnaround in the Earth4AII Analysis 137
Barriers 137
Conclusions 144
8 From "Winner Take All" Capitalism to Earth4All Economies 145
A New Economic Operating System 145
The Rise of Rentier Capitalism 147
Rethinking the Commons in the Anthropocene 149
The Conventional Economic Gameboard 152
Redrawing the Gameboard 155
Short-termism: The Road to a Parasitic Financial System 159
Putting the Systems Change into Effect 160
How to Resolve the Systems Failure 161
Conclusions 163
9 A Call to Action 165
Is Earth for All Closer Than We Think? 167
A Chorus of Voices 170
Appendix: The Earth4All Model 175
Model Purpose 175
Model History 176
The Main Sectors in the Model 177
Model Causal Loop Diagram 179
Model Novelty 179
The Earth for All Game 180
Notes 181
Index 189
About the Authors 195
About the Publisher 196