{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"The radical plan to rethink work, wealth and planetary well-being","description":"A group of more than 40 researchers spent 20 months devising a plan for the world to achieve ecological sustainability within planetary boundaries, all while seeing incomes rise for 98% of the global population and reducing working hours for everybody by half to two and a half days a week. The plan to achieve this by 2100 is laid out in the recent \u201cGlobal Justice Report.\u201d If it sounds utopian, Lucas Chancel, the co-director of the World Inequality Lab and editor of the report, is the first person to acknowledge this, but explains why it\u2019s not only possible \u2014 there\u2019s even historical precedent for many of the measures the report outlines. Achieving this plan rests on three pillars: decarbonization and the energy transition; a shift towards \u201csufficiency,\u201d defined here as the reduction of labor and production of superfluous products not needed for human survival; and a \u201cdrastic reduction in inequality of income, wealth and power.\u201d \u201cBasically, our plan is thought in a way that it can work with [an] incomplete coalition of actors,\u201d he says. \u201cThat is, you can start to implement it even though you don't have a global wealth tax. But our argument is that progressively, more and more countries [are] doing exactly these things.\u201d Please take a minute to let us know what you think of our podcast here. Mike DiGirolamo is the host & producer for the Mongabay Newscast based in Sydney. Find him on LinkedIn and Bluesky. Cover image: Bay near Pulau Rayo, Raja Ampat, Indonesia. Image by Rhett A. Butler\/Mongabay. \u2014\u2014 Timecodes (00:00) A habitable, equitable world is possible (14:19) How we accomplish it (30:56) Rebutting the arguments against it (40:15) 98% of the world would see their income rise (44:55) Gender equality is at the heart of it ","author_name":"Mongabay Newscast","author_url":"https:\/\/www.mongabay.com\/podcast\/","html":"