2023-09-19 06:30:41
The Club of Rome announces the publication of the French version of its book “Earth for all / Terre pour Tous” on September 27. It aims to build societies during this century that value prosperity for all rather than the profit of a few.
In 1972, the Club of Rome unveiled the Meadows Report “The Limits to Growth”. It showed the impossibility of resorting to infinite economic growth in a finite world. And today, how can we inhabit the planet sustainably with more than 8 billion humans? How can we build an economy of peace and well-being, respect planetary limits and ensure prosperity for all? Fifty years later, with the publication “Earth for All: A Survival Guide for Humanity”, the Club of Rome wishes to provide answers to these broad challenges. The French version will be available on September 27, 2023 from Actes Sud.
To launch this new version, Sandrine Dixson-Declève, co-president of the Club of Rome and co-author of Earth for All, was at the Summer Universities of the Economy of Tomorrow in Paris on August 30. So what would an economy of peace look like? “An economy of peace is an economy of well-being”, she replies. It takes into account numerous indicators, beyond productivity, such as instruction, education, the fight once morest inequalities and poverty and gives a value to nature. It does not depend on military spending or fossil fuels. “This welfare economy is also a systemic economy that takes into account all geopolitical relationships, that stops dependence on an extractive economy and that diverts spending that is for the benefit of just a few, to the benefit of all. world “adds Sandrine Dixson-Declève.
Changing course for a fair economy
The Club of Rome proposes two scenarios for achieving, in a single generation, a state of shared prosperity on Earth. “To take this giant step”the Club of Rome identifies five “changes of course” which break with current trends, underlines Sandrine Dixson-Declève. It is regarding focusing on poverty and inequalities, giving more weight to the role of women, changing the food system and the energy system.
This is in line with the work highlighted by the latest IPCC report. Scientists indeed insist on the importance of social inclusion in environmental policies in order to succeed in ecological transformation. “The metamorphosis that we must make must happen very quickly, but it can be done if and only if it is right”underlines Yamina Saheb, researcher at the French Observatory of Economic Conditions (OFCE), author of the IPCC.
As social tension continues to increase around the world, as inequalities and tensions strengthen, these radical changes to come call on governments to better involve and listen to their citizens. “Every second that passes and we remain in the current economic system is time lost which increases the vulnerability of people, warns Yamina Saheb. The number of disappointed people is only increasing in France and elsewhere and might crystallize around a much more violent movement.. Sandrine Dixson-Declève agrees. “If citizens are not served as they should be and prosperity is not shared among most citizens, there will be a revolution,” she alerts.
More than just a book, Earth for All is an international initiative that explores the means to be implemented so that human societies can guarantee their populations a decent level of well-being by the turn of the century. Launched in 2020 by the Club of Rome, the BI Norwegian Business School, the Stockholm Resilience Center and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Change Research, the initiative developed a state-of-the-art system dynamics model. It undertakes a systemic analysis by combining and testing a large number of factors within large regions of the world : human behavior, technological development, economic growth, food production, climate change, a set of hypotheses and their repercussions on the biosphere and climate during the 21st century century.
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