14 November 2022 - Dire predictions about the impending collapse of civilization have become almost common place. Okay, doomers – enough. Yes, humanity faces existential risks. In the coming decades, billions of people in the world’s poorest economies will be hit the...
08 November 2022 - The climate crisis is a greater concern than the cost of living or an increase in armed conflicts across the G7 group of industrial nations, according to major new research. Despite the threat of recession and facing steep rises in the cost of food...
27 October 2022 - What are the transformations and trade-offs that will be needed in a resource-constrained 21st century to reverse our supercharged self-destructive trajectory? This is the existential question of our times, and answering it will require a departure...
24 October 2022 - It’s common to say that the invisible hand - the market - rewards and punishes. The invisible hand has punished Liz Truss and the British government, throwing the UK into chaos. Even the markets didn’t believe the prime minister’s clueless economic...
27 September 2022 - The world needs to shift to a radically different economic model if it is to avoid stagnation and ensure prosperity for all. Businesses will ultimately benefit from this transition, but they must play an active role in system change if they are to...
21 September 2022 - Despite its dominance as an indicator of progress, GDP was never intended to measure a society’s overall health. Rather, it was intended to measure society’s economic activity level in monetary terms - as the value of the total output of goods and...
30 August 2022 - Landmark global analysis by an international team of scientists and economists warns of rising social tensions and sets out survival pathways for humanity. Left unchecked, rising inequality in the next 50 years will lead to increasingly dysfunctional...
16 August 2022 - Earth for All: A Survival Guide for Humanity (September 2022), is a unique book. For the first time, it presents the results of a remarkable two-year broad-minded research collaboration, Earth4All. Earth4All brought together many of the world’s...
14 July 2022 - Because the changes needed to achieve sustainable well-being for everyone are so big, they require determined social movements with wide participation. But while history shows that inertia and defeatism can become self-fulfilling, it also shows that...
23 June 2022 - Until political and business leaders accept – and act on the knowledge – that we are all part of an interdependent living system, we cannot achieve global equity or a healthy planet. The good news is that The Club of Rome has identified turnaround...
