‘Happiness is not just about GDP’: ambitious plan or utopia?

Key points

• In our increasingly dystopian world, who wouldn’t want to at least be open to a utopian antidote?
• The Global Justice Report, published on Thursday, outlines how to build a prosperous, equitable world within safe planetary boundaries.
• It’s a push from the modern eco-socialist left in a global battle for ideas that will shape the future.
• Based on past social achievements and future energy transformation, it indicates that the overwhelming majority of people on the planet could, by the end of the century, work less and earn more – while keeping temperatures down and avoiding much of the current destruction of nature.
• It is an ambitious, comprehensive and upbeat plan, and a stronger argument around which to build a political campaign than abstract goals of net zero or decarbonisation.