For the resilience and stability of our climate and planet,
we need now to shift our entire civilization - in a short time against long odds.
We feel that the tide against destructive forces is turning - and that we can stabilize and reduce our sprawling human impact.
This isn't a trivial task. But it's becoming more and more inevitable as the old order falls apart.
We can do this by recognizing (and talking about) what went wrong in western civilization - as well as about what went right. People are already using this insight to shift their mindsets, helping others grasp the risks ahead, and mobilizing public will to change course.
We believe that in collaboration with like-minded people, movements and coalitions, we can accelerate the move away from a rampant growth economy which drives ecological overshoot.
How? By talking about it. By connecting. By shifting and reforming our systems. By investing in empowering, rights-based solutions for women and children. By repairing our relationships with Nature, and with each other. And above all, by learning deeply.
Few of us individually have the necessary reach. So we hope you will join with us in communicating to affect public thinking at scale. Your organization can contribute to this while still passionately pursuing your primary mission.
If society at large embraces the necessity of acting now in creating a compassionate ecologically sustainable world, we expect that there will be two outcomes:
Responsible leaders will have support for making the tough decisions necessary to protect our life support systems.
Practical on-the-ground initiatives – of which there are millions – will gain much more energy and resources.
Surely you would like to see both of these outcomes? Please work with us!
Rome is Burning. The Time is Now. February 18, 2022 - Stable Planet's founding CEO talks to Population Balance's Nandita Bajaj and Alan Ware: Why did we form the Stable Planet Alliance? How did it emerge from the World Scientists' Warning of a Climate Emergency? Can we actually solve any of our social and environmental crises without reducing population and hyperconsumption? What's the leadership role for women? Phoebe says she has become 'stroppy' over the years of inaction by governments, corporations and societies.
Scientists' Warning Into Action: Interview with Phoebe Barnard. October 31, 2021 - Stable Planet Alliance founding CEO Phoebe Barnard explains the actions to avert planetary disaster recommended in the new climate action blueprint, "World Scientists' Warning into Action, Local to Global" launched for world leaders at COP26. The paper is known as 'SWIA' for short. Watch on 1.5x speed for a peppy talk.
Co-sign this important paper and see a 3-min film on the process here at Scientists' Warning Europe.
Even knowing history, are we really doomed to repeat it? July 11, 2021 - "Overshoot: the population-consumption conundrum" was the talk by Stable Planet Alliance patron, Prof Bill Rees of University of British Columbia at Scientists' Warning Europe on World Population Day 2021.
What's a sustainable global population? And how do we get there from here? July 11, 2021 - Stable Planet Alliance advisory board member, Dr Chris Tucker, chair of the American Geographical Society, weighs up the data and some potential goals for humanity.
What kind of a society do we really want? And how do we get there from here?
July 11, 2021 - Stable Planet Alliance's founding CEO, Prof Phoebe Barnard, comments on Prof Bill Rees' talk for World Population Day 2021 at Scientists' Warning Europe, soft-launching GirlPlanet.Earth as Stable Planet Alliance's first award-winning project - a platform for global women talking about the future, the planet, and their own lives.
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