spotlight
- Essay–Great Transition: The Promise and Lure of the Times Ahead
- Pathbreaking study of civilization at the crossroads, from historic roots to alternative scenarios
- Slide Show
- Overview of Great Transition ideas
- Video–Global Futures
- Lecture by GTI Director Paul Raskin at Harvard University
- Paper Series–Frontiers of a Great Transition
- Institutional, cultural and environmental dimensions of a GT shift
Visions and Pathways for a Hopeful Future
The Great Transition Initiative envisions and advances a future of enriched lives, human solidarity, and environmental sustainability.
Global scenarios honed by a formidable network of scholars and activists offer rich descriptions integrating the historic roots, current dynamics and future perils of world development. At once rigorous and inspiring, the Great Transition story brings the message that a better world is possible if we shift our values and transform our institutions.
Critical to this hopeful transition is growing public awareness of the dangers ahead and the need to revise our ways of living – and living together – on this planet. In this, our time of choice, a vast movement of global citizens can carry forward a Great Transition.
Key Perspectives
- A long view...
- history has entered the planetary phase of civilization
- A global community...
- humanity and Earth are bound in a common destiny
- A fear...
- looming crises portend a time of troubles
- A choice...
- we can shape the future by imagining what it could be
- A vision...
- a transition to a sustainable and just society is possible
- A conviction...
- a new global consciousness is ready to crystalize