Turnaround Inequality

Since summer 2023, we at the Club of Rome – Austrian Chapter have been working on an Austria-wide campaign to create a positive vision of the necessary transformation or, as in the Report Earth4All written to implement a “Giant Leap” in Austria.

Our societies will no longer be torn apart by excessive inequalities. By redistributing wealth within and between nations, future generations will have greater opportunities to realize their dreams, regardless of family and country of origin.

Earth4All (2022)

Vision:

By reducing structural inequality, income and wealth are distributed so fairly that there is hardly any monetary poverty any more. All people have a secure existence. They have access to work and a basic income so that they can afford to live well within planetary and social boundaries, which also has a positive impact on the regional economy, climate and nature. In addition, there is a broad range of socio-ecological services and infrastructures that are accessible to everyone and meet their needs. This includes medical care, educational opportunities, housing, mobility, local amenities and leisure activities. Social organizations play an important role and human-centered professions have been upgraded. The administrative and legal system is transparent and offers opportunities for participation free from discrimination, and it promotes integration.

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Kate Pickett, University of York:
“With clear planetary boundaries to economic growth
we can no longer pretend that economic growth is a substitute for fairer distribution.”

Levers and goals:

This reversal of inequality is based on three fundamental levers that enable continuous development towards a new economic paradigm:

This reversal of inequality is based on three fundamental levers that enable continuous development towards a new economic paradigm:

• Redistribution and tax justice: Progressive tax package: wealth + inheritance, compensation for social, economic and ecological damage, secure housing + livelihood + basic needs
• Participation, equal opportunities, tolerance: democratization of the economy, strengthening trade unions + citizens’ councils, political participation and opportunities to exert influence, transparency of wealth and distribution of power
• Paradigm shift: educational opportunities for political participation, moving away from the idea of performance and towards a life in dignity, development of positive goals, deglobalization

Gini coefficient:

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On this page, we document relevant events and workshops, publish interviews and contributions by qualified authors and will soon also present what we as the Club of Rome/Earth4All see as the consequences of this for Austria. We see all of this as contributions to a process that we believe should be initiated in Austria in the sense of a “turnaround in inequality”.

Below you will find information on

Events

Background Material

Team

Website Contributions

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