Planetary Doughnuts - Global Inequality

Au point de l’histoire humaine où nous en sommes, le mouvement qui décrit le mieux le progrès dont nous avons besoin est l’entrée dans un équilibre dynamique, en avançant dans l’espace juste et sûr du Donut, en éliminant à la fois les insuffisances et les dépassements. Cela requiert une véritable transformation de nos métaphores : non plus « le bie

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This ubiquitous industrial model has delivered strong profits to many businesses and has financially enriched many nations in the process. But its design is fundamentally flawed because it runs counter to the living world, which thrives by continually recycling life’s building blocks such as carbon, oxygen, water, nitrogen and phosphorus. Industria

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Scientists estimate that the planet can handle a total material footprint of up to about 50 billion tons per year.14 That’s considered to be a maximum safe boundary. Today we’re exceeding that boundary twice over. And, as we will see, virtually all of this overshoot is being driven by excess consumption in high-income nations – consumption that is

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. Dans la province du Yunnan, en Chine, des chercheurs ont procédé à une analyse de type Donut sur l’impact social et écologique de l’industrie et de l’agriculture autour du lac Erhai, principale source d’eau de la région40. Des sociétés comme Patagonia, fabricant américain de vêtements de plein air, ou les supermarchés Sainsbury’s en Grande-Bretag

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2004 what many had hoped would be a breakthrough paper was published by The Journal of Economic Perspectives. A collaboration of some of the world’s most distinguished environmental economists and ecologists, such as Kenneth Arrow, Partha Dasgupta, Lawrence Goulder, Paul Ehrlich, Stephen Schneider, and Gretchen Daily, asked a question that had been

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