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I am 41 years old. This means I grew up in a time of optimism. The popular interpretation of Fukuyama’s book The End of History and the Last Man as a prediction of the end of events may have been a misrepresentation; still, I believe it was a sign of the times. For a moment in history, we thought we had it pretty much figured out. I don’t think that anymore. In this book, I will describe how I came to the conclusion that we live in a moment of extraordinary historical relevance. What a unique now-or-never moment we have to turn around humanity’s current trajectory towards something much better than the society we live in today. And why failure to make this turnaround will result in a significantly worse one. I will advocate for deep systemic changes to our global society, although I should point out that I have benefitted more from our current systems than most people on this globe. I grew up in one of the richest countries in the world in terms of wealth per capita—The Netherlands. I studied Econometrics and paid off my student loans of less than EUR 3000 within five months after graduating cum laude in 2004. I ended up, as typically happened with Econometrics graduates in those days, in the financial sector. As it turns out, I had joined one of those companies that dealt exclusively in asset-backed securities, the financial products that are now known as the instigators of the 2008 global financial crisis (GFC). I left that company sooner than I had intended at the start, with a vague sense that something was wrong. A few months later, the GFC hit, but I do not claim that I saw it coming. At the time, I had not even discounted the possibility that something was wrong with me. Looking back, however, it was the first inkling that something had been missing in my economics classes. I made a career switch and led an activistic non-profit that advocated for mainstreaming organic and fair-trade products for a few years, at the time still convinced of the responsibility of private individuals to bring about change. Since then, the GFC had disrupted societies around the world, and I realized that it hadn’t just been me who didn’t understand what was going on in the financial markets. I went back to finance but on the regulatory side this time, at The Dutch Central Bank. After a few years there, I was approached by KPMG to work for them in New York City (NYC). They provided me with a high enough salary and sufficient downtime to actually enjoy the place. After three winters, however, the city had lost its appeal to me. I told my boss I needed to move to theWest Coast, Los Angeles to be exact. This was no problem; KPMG has offices everywhere, and I was working remotely. The city of broken dreams made plenty come into my life. I finalized my thesis for a master’s degree in Sustainability from Harvard, remotely in a small house overlooking the Hollywood sign. I met my now husband, who had also lived all over the world for study and work, including in Japan, Australia, and Germany, and several places in the United States (US). Unburdened by any debt, we bought a house in theWashington DC area. While pregnant not much later, I turned my thesis into a journal article, which went viral last summer. For several days, the headlines on major American news pages trumpeted that my research proved we are on the brink of societal collapse. A few days later, British pages touted the same headlines. Then, within a few weeks, I saw my name popping up in languages I do not know—from Swedish to Greek, to Chinese, to Sinhala.