An open letter to the citizens of Earth

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