1) RUINOUS COLLAPSE
2) AUTHORITARIAN CONTROL WITH AI
3) LEAP FORWARD WITH EIGHT UPLIFTS

Adapted from the book Choosing Earth
by Duane Elgin
2024

OUR TIME OF COLLECTIVE CHOICE
We stand at a threshold unlike any in the past 100,000 years of human history. The decisions we make in the next few decades will cascade through millennia. Three distinct pathways are already emerging—each represents not just a possible future, but a choice we are actively making through our actions or inactions today. The window for choosing is rapidly closing.