Earth for All by Sandrine Dixson-Decleve & Club of Rome Summary
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"Earth for All" presents five revolutionary steps to save humanity from climate catastrophe. A Foreword INDIES finalist praised as "mandatory reading in schools," this survival guide combines cutting-edge modeling with spiritual depth to transform our inequitable economic system into a sustainable future.
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When the Clock Hits Zero
We're living in borrowed time. The gap between what we know we must do and what we're actually doing has never been wider. Half a century after "Limits to Growth" warned us about planetary boundaries, we've blown past several of them. Yet here's the paradox: we've also never been better equipped to solve these problems. Renewable energy is now cheaper than fossil fuels. We understand inequality's corrosive effects on democracy. We know how to end poverty. The tools exist-what's missing is the collective will to use them before the window closes. Picture two children born in 2020-one in Lagos, another in Los Angeles. Their futures diverge dramatically depending on choices made this decade. In the "Too Little Too Late" scenario, incremental changes fail to address root causes. By 2030, schools close from air pollution in China while California burns. Bangladesh diverts education funds to flood defenses. Lagos swells to 20 million with limited opportunity. By 2050, we've crashed through the 2C threshold, ice sheets collapse, and the Amazon dries out. Migration surges as equatorial regions become uninhabitable. Trade wars erupt over dwindling resources. Social trust evaporates as governments prove incapable of long-term thinking amid cascading crises. But there's another path. The "Giant Leap" scenario shows what happens when nations unite early in the 2020s to transform financial institutions, tackle inequality head-on, and invest in green transitions. By 2050, both children grow up in cleaner environments with genuine opportunities. The American child's family receives $20,000 annually from a Citizens Fund built on wealth and resource fees. Greenhouse emissions plummet. Social tension declines as wellbeing improves and trust rebuilds. Which future materializes depends entirely on implementing five extraordinary turnarounds-not someday, but now.
Breaking the Poverty Trap and Closing the Wealth Chasm
Empowering Women and Stabilizing Population
Feeding Nine Billion Without Destroying Earth
The Energy Revolution
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