"We begin with a deliberately ambitious question. What would it take for every person on Earth to live at least as well as someone in Switzerland does today-by 2100? Not culturally Swiss, but economically empowered with high incomes, long lives, strong education, and social cohesion. Achieving this would require global GDP to be about 8.5 times higher than it is today. That figure alone is enough to trigger skepticism. Will we have enough energy, materials, food, and innovation?"
"We would need two to three times today's total and around 30 times more clean electricity. It's a big ask, but doable with innovation and investment. The Earth's bounty in terms of minerals and metals is sufficient; we just need to find, mine, and process them. Recoverable reserves of lithium have been growing at triple the rate we would need as strong demand triggered active search for supply."
Senior executives express both confidence and concern, facing more scrutiny while evaluating capital cycles, technology transitions, resilience, and long-term value creation. Long-term assumptions about energy, demographics, geopolitics, and productivity are shifting simultaneously. The ambitious target is for every person to attain Swiss-level economic living standards by 2100, implying roughly 8.5× global GDP. Achieving this demands two to three times current total energy and about 30 times more clean electricity, expanded mineral and metal extraction with growing lithium reserves, and the ability to feed up to 12 billion people with protein-rich diets on equal or less land through modest yield improvements.
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