PART I CONFRONTATION: THE BANKERS’ CONGRESS0 2021. PROLOGUE: ESCAPE FROM CRISIS1 2019. I’M STRUGGLING... WILL I EVER RISE AGAIN? 2 EXCHANGE OF THOUGHTS3 IN FREE FALL... AND THEN THERE’S A PARACHUTE4 A SURPRISING LANDING5 GENERATION GAP6 LEAP OF FAITH7 FLOUNDERING TO KEEP FROM DROWNING8 RECOGNIZED9 THE CIRCLE10 SHOCKING11 INSIGHTS WITH ESTHER12 NERDS AND PAW HOOKS13 ESTHER AGAIN AND A STRANGE INTERVIEW14 ON THE CUTTING EDGE15 BYE BYE TO BASEL16 GLOBAL WARMING17 REDUCTIONIST VS HOLISTIC18 SAVED BY ‘LA BELLE’19 KICKBACKPART II CONFLICT: ECOLOGY > ECONOMY1 BACK TO NORMAL AMSTERDAM LEVEL2 LONDON3 SUMMERHOUSE - AMSTERDAM V.V. 4 SUMMERHOUSE II - COMING CLOSE5 EDITORIAL WORK6 FRANKFURT7 ESTHER ESCAPES8 CRISIS WITH ANTON9 FURTHER JAMMING10 EMMA’S INITIATION11 THREE WOMEN12 DAVOS CIRCLE II13THE SECOND DAY14 THIS DID NOT GO WELL15 ANGER, PANIC AND NEW ORDER16 TRACKING IN VERMONT17 LIBERATION18 BACK TO AMSTERDAMPART III CRISIS AND NEW WAYS1 FLIP OUT2 MIAMI, THE SHIP3 GROWING TENSIONS4 BREAKING5 SAN FRANCISCO, EMMA6 DISCLOSURES, HOME7 COHESION8 LETTERS9 CRISIS CONSULT10 SURPRISES, PLEASANT AND UNPLEASANT11 “NACHT UND NEBEL”12 GOING HOME 13 ESTHER INCOGNITO14 OPENLY ON TARGET15 TO EUROPE 16 HYDROGEN AND FORESTRY17 DEEPER AND DEEPER 18 WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT19 WORK IS LOVE IN PROGRESS20 THREATS AND BRIGHT SPOTS21 WITH MARC22 WITH ANTON ON CHANGE AGENTS23 WITH LODI AND VIC ON “ISLANDS OF CHANGE “24 MANIFESTO25 A NEW STRATEGY26 TEAM27 BIOMASS SYMPOSIUM28 THE BIRTH29 BACK IN THE LOCKDOWNAPPENDIX: THE PARLIAMENT OF THINGSEPILOGUEA journalist is dispatched at a low point in his existence to cover a bankers' conference. There he becomes embroiled in a search for a new economic paradigm. For the world.This quest takes you from brutal neoliberalism, from earning models based on crises and wars, to an inclusive economy. Past the complementary emotion- and knowledge-based economy views. Along the fallacy that permanence and flux lie on the same x-axis, likewise with the concepts of freedom and security. And to the appalling discovery that Earth is warming up so fast because the cooling system – based on cloud formation, i.e. water – is getting way out of control due to desiccation and desertification. Collateral damage from ill-considered economic action.Follow Jonathan Fonck on his intense journeys into the outer and inner worlds. Outwardly he is the successful top journalist of an economic daily in Amsterdam. See also his inner struggles, victories and defeats.He has been seen, weighed and found fit to provide the world with a new paradigm lest the planet, the life bearing Gaia, remains habitable.Jon is an astute analyst; you can follow him in dialogues, expositions, reflections, lectures and letters, from himself and from the people he meets. His considered views on circular and human scale economics, embedded in an ecology-protecting paradigm, may seem familiar to you. After all, they are so obvious.Parts I and II play out in 2019.Part III, set in 2020 and 2021, offers innovative insights into how an economy, based on think global, act local not only brings ecological salvation, but also returns self-determination over production and consumption to human communities, thanks to new technologies, sustainable transportation and proper education.Actually, the only fictional thing in this thriller is the benevolence with which big money finances small-scale enterprise with a 25-year return horizon. An incentive.In search of a new normal. But not that of the technocrats, who want to "reset" the world to their model, that of the World Economic Forum. The authors advocate a softer new order, a "Beautiful reset". From analyses, confrontational viewpoints, old and new visions of sustainability, they end up with innovative social and technical innovations. Bottom up instead of top down.