As self-appointed Planetary CFO, one of my first tasks is to start to get my head round what should be in the World Balance Sheet. Here are some initial ideas. The overall idea is that we should record the commitment to provide sufficiently for the basic needs of a total global population of x billion. This is similar in some ways to pension trusts that hold financial assets sufficient to provide for the pension entitlements of its pensioners. In the World Balance Sheet, the assets need to be maintained in a way that provides for the basic needs of the populace of people, while at the same time doing it in a way that enables the people to live sustainably alongside a sufficiently large and biodiverse population of non-human species, while also recognising limits in other natural, chemical and geological systems of systems that represent One Planet Living in perpetuity.
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