The TT (Timely Transformation) Scenario The first steps The experience of terrorism and war, together with rising poverty and the threats posed by a changing climate trigger positive changes in the way people think. The idea that individuals and small groups themselves can be effective agents of transformation toward a more peaceful and sustainable world captures the imagination of more and more people. People in different cultures and different walks of life pull together to confront the threats they face in common. The worldwide rise of popular movements for peace and international cooperation leads to the election of similarly motivated political figures, lending fresh impetus to projects of economic cooperation and intercultural solidarity. • Political and opinion leaders wake up to the urgent need to come to the aid of the most immediately endangered populations and create a world-level organization to monitor the threats, provide warning, and raise the funds to undertake rescue operations. Local, national and global business leaders decide to adopt a strategy where the pursuit of profit and growth is informed by the search for corporate social and ecological responsibility. • An electronic E-Parliament comes on line, linking parliamentarians worldwide and providing a forum for debates on the best ways to serve the common good. • Non-governmental organizations link up through the Internet and develop shared strategies to restore peace, revitalize war-torn regions and environments, and ensure an adequate supply of food and water. They promote socially and ecologically responsible policies in local and national governments and in business. Money is re-assigned from military and defense budgets to fund practical attempts at conflict resolution and the implementation of internationally agreed and globally coordinated social and ecological sustainability projects. A worldwide renewable energy program is created, paving the way toward a third industrial revolution making use of solar and other renewable energy sources to transform the global economy, provide clean water, and lift marginalized populations out of the vicious cycles of poverty. • Agriculture is restored to a place of primary importance in the world economy, both for producing staple foods and for growing energy crops and raw materials for communities and industry. Business leaders the world over join forces in creating a voluntarily self-regulating eco-social market economy that ensures fair access to natural resources as well as to industrial goods and economic activity to all countries and populations. The rise of a sustainable civilization National, continental and global governance structures are reformed or newly created, moving states toward participatory democracy and releasing a surge of creative energy among empowered and increasingly active populations. • The consensually created and globally coordinated eco-social market system begins to function; as a result the natural resources required for health and wellbeing become available throughout the world community. International and intercultural mistrust, ethnic conflict, racial oppression, economic injustice, and gender inequality give way to a higher level of trust, and the shared will to achieve peaceful relations among states and sustainability in the economy and the environment.
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