‘An equal and habitable world is possible’: academics set out sweeping vision for planetary survival

“At the end of the day we’ll have to come to this kind of cooperative redistribution of resources and power because the alternative will simply lead to disastrous outcomes both on the environment, on the climate, but also on social grounds.”

If only we used all of that energy in figuring out how to kill each other, we used it to cooperate and make the world a better place. Necessity breeds innovation but only when there are enough resources to build.

"To achieve this, the authors envisage three steps: more than halving average working time from 2,100 hours a year to 1,000 hours, roughly equivalent to a two-and-a-half-day working week”