Fig. 1: Current global status of shortfall and overshoot in the Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries.
From: Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries monitors a world out of balance
Values shown are for 2022. Social wedges (inner ring) show the status of humanity relative to minimum social standards and ecological wedges (outer ring) show Earth-system status relative to planetary boundaries. Red wedges show a shortfall below the social foundation or an overshoot beyond the ecological ceiling. The grey wedge indicates missing data. The centre of the plot represents total human deprivation (for the social indicators) and the pre-industrial Holocene baseline (for the ecological indicators). Values are proportional to the length of each wedge, which leads to a quadratic scaling of wedge area that may lead some readers to perceive small changes as more significant than they are. To address this limitation, we provide Fig. 2 with a bar-chart representation that avoids this quadratic scaling issue. Wedges with a faded edge extend beyond the chart area. A maximum of two indicators are included in each social or ecological dimension. Ideally, there would be no red wedges below the social foundation or above the ecological ceiling. See Tables 1 and 2 for details on all of the social and ecological indicators, including their respective boundaries. Adapted from ref. 2, CC BY 4.0.
