“If you don’t know where you are going,
any road will get you there.”

Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

No one can know the future. We can choose a path that will hopefully take us toward a better society or we can slide toward collapse. How are we likely to respond to these increasing pressures for change? Which paths lead to the best results for all? What might that transition look like? Fortunately, the Tellus Institute, Stockholm Environment Institute, and Global Scenario Group worked together to develop these six instructive scenarios.

Six likely scenarios

The Great Transition Initiative has laid out six likely scenarios of how our society might evolve.

Please watch the short 6 min. video that explains the scenarios.

The scenarios are distinguished by distinct responses to the social and environmental challenges. Market Forces relies on the self-correcting logic of competitive markets. Policy Reform depends on government action…