A letter from participants in the Council for a Human Future / Club of Rome Roundtable for a Human Future, 27 July 2024. Collated by Roundtable co-organizer Julian Cribb and uploaded by speaker and Stable Planet co-founder Phoebe Barnard, representing there the Global Restoration Collaborative.
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Human civilization is facing its greatest crisis, consisting of many catastrophic risks coming
together at the same time.
So far there is no world plan of action to limit or prevent all these risks, which include
resource scarcity, ecological collapse and extinction, a hothouse Earth, food failures,
weapons of mass destruction, global poisoning, pandemic disease, population overshoot,
overconsumption, dangerous technologies, poverty, inequitable access to healthcare,
injustice and misinformation.
Leading scientists have voiced concern about all these risks and the potential they pose for
civilisational collapse. We add our call to theirs.
These risks are interlinked. None can be solved in isolation. However, they can be overcome
– with worldwide awareness, cooperation, goodwill and determination.
No government yet has a plan for dealing with the multiple threats to our civilization, our
grandchildren and the life support systems of Earth into the future. There is not even an
agreement that we humans should try to survive.
The Roundtable on the Human Future has produced a powerful new report on the human
crisis and what may be done about it.
We here call for a World Plan of Action to address all the catastrophic risks, together, in
ways that make none of them worse.
We call for a fairer, safer, healthier and more sustainable future for all people and life on
our Planet.
Signed:
Climate Foundation
Climate Majority Project
Club of Rome
Common Home of Humanity
Council for the Human Future
Earth Institute
Engage, Connect, Protect
Extinction Rebellion
Future Earth Australia
Future Design Research Centre
Greening Youth Foundation
Global Challenges Foundation
Global Evergreening Alliance
Global Governance Forum
Global Restoration Collaborative
Global Youth Security Council
Healthy Planet Action Coalition
InterAction Council
Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere
Natural Capitalism Solutions
Post Carbon Institute
Revolution in the 21st Century
Sustainable Resource Roundtable
The Scholars’ Warning on Societal Disruption and Collapse
The Third Act
Transition Earth
World Academy of Arts and Sciences
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