The Planet’s Economist: Has Kate Raworth Found a Model for Sustainable Living?
It’s really quite straightforward. Right now, the dominant assumption in economics is that all sectors of the economy must grow, all the time, regardless of whether or not we actually need them to. This is an irrational way to manage an economy at the best of times, but during an ecological emergency it is clearly dangerous. Instead, we should
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Donut Economics = A Holistic 21st Century Economics Model designed to address both our world’s economic shortcomings and overshoots on a global and fractal scale. Entirely doable. Applicable to all groupings of humans from the very small to the very large. Amsterdam is the first city-level case study to intentionally adopt and apply the donut.
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Explaining planetary boundaries and the birth of Doughnut Economics: balancing ecological limits with universal human needs.
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Planet Earth has a set of life supporting systems on which we depend to keep this unique, delicately balanced living planet in balance. And these include having a stable climate and fertile soil and abundant biodiversity and recharging fresh water and an ozone layer overhead. And if we go beyond the limit of pressure that we can safely put on any
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Donut economics: meeting everyone’s social needs while staying within planetary boundaries, redefining progress as ecological and social balance.
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So think of a donut with a hole in the middle. And the hole in the middle is a place where people are falling short on the essentials of life. It's where people don't have the resources they need for food and health care and education, housing, energy, transport, networks, being part of communication networks, right? That is a really, really
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