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The Doughnut: a twenty-first-century compass

Description

An economic model to change the goal from GDP to the doughnut. What exactly is the Doughnut? Put simply, it's a radically new compass for guiding humanity this century. Below the Doughnut's social foundation lie shortfalls in human well-being, faced by those who lack life's essentials. Beyond the ecological ceiling lies an overshoot of pressure on Earth’s life-giving systems. But between these two sets of boundaries lies a sweet spot--shaped unmistakably like a doughnut--that is both an ecologically safe and socially just space for humanity.

The Doughnut's inner ring--its social foundation sets out the basics of life on which no one should be left falling short. These twelve basics include sufficient food; clean water and decent sanitation; access to energy and clean cooking facilities; access to education and to healthcare; decent housing; a minimum income and decent work; and access to networks of information and to networks of social support. Furthermore, it calls for achieving these with gender equality, social equity, political voice, and peace and justice.

The nine planetary boundaries create the best picture we have yet seen of what it will take to hang on to the home-sweet-home of the Holocene, but to do so in the human-dominated age of the Anthropocene. And it is these nine planetary boundaries that define the Doughnuts ecological ceiling, the limits beyond which we should put no further pressure on the planet if we want to safeguard the stability of our home.

Designer

Kate Raworth

Date

February 2017

Bibliographic Citation

Raworth, K. (2017). Doughnut economics : seven ways to think like a 21st century economist. Chelsea Green Publishing. P. 38

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