Planetary Restoration Compact
A project-authored scenario
Powerful systems operate under a public mandate that gives ecosystems and nonhuman life standing alongside human interests.
Life under this arrangement
Decisions about production and land use must account for living systems that do not vote or own property. Some projects attractive to present humans are limited on that basis.
- Practical authority
- A revisable human mandate with institutions representing nonhuman interests.
- Benefits and ownership
- Ecological claims constrain resource use; human distribution remains contested.
- Human and digital status
- Biological humanity persists alongside represented nonhuman interests. Digital status is open.
- Technical premises
- Institutions can represent ecological interests and maintain useful systems; ASI is optional.
- Attractions
- Nonhuman life can constrain development rather than relying on voluntary restraint.
- Costs and objections
- Reduced human consumption or development and disputes over representation.
- Not specified
- Who speaks for ecosystems and resolves conflicts among present and future interests.
All authored features used in comparison
These are editorial descriptors, independent of the historical map. Unspecified and variant-dependent properties remain unresolved when matching preferences.
- Practical human governing authority
- Present
Humans retain practical final authority
Additional project hypothetical. The authored compact explicitly operates under a human mandate.
- Revisable governing mandates
- Present
People can effectively revise governing mandates
Additional project hypothetical. The authored human mandate is explicitly revisable.
- A practical right to leave
- Unspecified
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether people have a usable right to leave.
- Several self-governing communities
- Unspecified
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether several communities govern themselves.
- A guaranteed material floor
- Variant-dependent
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. Provision can vary with the settlement; a universal material floor is not guaranteed.
- Private ownership of productive resources
- Variant-dependent
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. The economic settlement may use private or common productive ownership.
- Continuing biological humanity
- Present
Biological humanity continues
Additional project hypothetical. Biological humanity continues alongside represented nonhuman life.
- Others’ choice to transform themselves
- Unspecified
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether feasible substantial transformation is legally permitted.
- Standing for artificial persons
- Unspecified
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether artificial persons have institutional standing.
- Enforced limits on selected capabilities
- Present
Selected capabilities face enforced limits
Project editorial inference. The project treats enforceable ecological constraints on selected technological projects as capability limits. The ecological reason for those limits is not itself elicited by the questionnaire.
- Visible exercise of governing power
- Present
People know who exercises governing power
Additional project hypothetical. The authored ecological mandate is public.
- Practical independence from a technical provider
- Variant-dependent
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. Infrastructure may offer practical alternatives or create an indispensable provider; the settlement does not fix this.
Compare the institutional difference
Origin and source status
Project-authored hypothetical. These institutional arrangements are declared premises, not observed developments or claims of original invention.
- IR Worldview Inventory: authored scenario premises · Planetary Restoration Compact; catalogue futures-catalogue-0.3
Project-authored hypothetical · Checked 2026-09-11
IR Worldview Inventory · AI-assisted editorial draft · futures-catalogue-0.3. Attribution does not imply endorsement. No current-development or community-attribution claim is inferred from this entry.