**If Europe Had Never Launched Overseas Conquest, Never Built the Transatlantic Slave System, and Never Globalized White Supremacy— What Kind of Planet, and What Kind of Human Journey, Might We Be Living In Instead?** Co-Pilot Report
Executive Summary This report examines a counterfactual global history in which European overseas conquest, the transatlantic slave system, and the ideology of white supremacy never emerged. The purpose is not to romanticize alternative civilizations, but to evaluate how global development, power distribution, cultural exchange, and human psychology might have unfolded under different structural conditions. The analysis suggests that the absence of these forces would likely have produced: A multipolar world system rather than a Europe‑dominated one. Stronger and uninterrupted African, Indigenous American, and Asian state formations . Different technological and economic pathways , not necessarily less advanced, but more regionally diverse. A global cultural landscape without a racial hierarchy placing “whiteness” at the top . A radically different psychological and political experience for populations who, in our timeline, spent centuries resisting racial domination. 1. Africa ...