In The News
See below for a selection of articles featuring our results in the news and popular press:
Articles written by us
- Charting the social shortfall and ecological overshoot of nations, Nature Sustainability Community (by Andrew Fanning, Dan O’Neill, Jason Hickel, and Nicolas Roux), November 18, 2021
- Gutes Leben innerhalb ökologischer Grenzen? – 148 Länder auf dem Prüfstand, Scientists for Future Austria (by Nicolas Roux), November 24, 2021
- Green growth vs degrowth: are we missing the point?, Open Democracy (by Beth Stratford), December 04, 2020
- What happens to wellbeing when economies do not grow?, Degrowth Info (by Andrew Fanning), February 16, 2019
- Doing the Doughnut at the G20?, Doughnut Economics (by Kate Raworth), December 1, 2018
- Communicating the vision of a good life for all within planetary limits, Policy & Practice (by Julia Steinberger), August 7, 2018
- If everyone lived sustainably, what would their lives be like?, From Poverty to Power (by Andrew Fanning), February 21, 2018
- Can we provide for 7 billion people without wrecking the planet?, Centre for Labour and Social Studies (by William Lamb), February 15, 2018
- Is it possible for everyone to live a good life within our planet’s limits?, The Conversation (by Dan O’Neill), February 7, 2018
- Living well, within planetary boundaries, Nature Sustainability Community (blog by Dan O’Neill, Andrew Fanning, William Lamb, and Julia Steinberger), February 5, 2018
Our favourite articles to date
- Rich countries must pay for the environmental damage they have wreaked, New Scientist (by Graham Lawton), April 20, 2022
- La UE y Estados Unidos, los mayores saqueadores de recursos naturales (Spain), El Confidencial (by Sarah Romero), April 18, 2022
- The US And EU Have Unsustainably Plundered Natural Resources For Decades, Study Shows, Science Alert, April 11, 2022
- Países ricos são mais responsáveis pelo aquecimento global (Brazil), Olhar Digital (by Rafael Arbulu), April 11, 2022
- US, EU responsible for 52% of excess resource use causing ecological damage: Study, CNBC, April 09, 2022
- Wealthy nations responsible for 74 percent of ecological harm: study, The Hill (by Zack Budryk), April 08, 2022
- High-income Countries Are Overshooting Planetary Boundaries, Causing Global Ecological Damage, Earth.org (by Olivia Lai), April 07, 2022
- US and Europe behind vast majority of global ecological damage, says study, The Guardian (by Arthur Neslen), April 06, 2022
- The Guardian view on ghost flights: a symptom, not the disease, The Guardian, March 06, 2022
- コロナ危機を超えて(6) 民主主義、気候変動でも試練 (Japan), The Nikkei (by Kohei Saito), January 11, 2022
- هل المجاعة قادمة للبشر كلهم خلال 3 عقود؟ (Arabic), Al Jazeera, November 26, 2021
- Deficit sociale e superamento dei confini ecologici delle nazioni. Il fallimento del neoliberismo (Italy), Green Report, November 26, 2021
- Wettlauf auf Kosten des Planeten (Germany), Natur.de, November 24, 2021
- Nations overusing natural resources faster than they replenish them – study, The Jerusalem Post, November 22, 2021
- Countries are overusing natural resources faster than is sustainable — even the greener ones, ZME Science (by Fermin Koop), November 21, 2021
- 全球過度消耗自然資源 研究：如趨勢持續 2050 年生態破壞加劇、更多窮人 (China), The Stand News (by Alan Chiu), November 20, 2021
- Countries Are Failing To Meet Basic Human Needs While Overusing Natural Resources, Mashable India (by Dese Gowda), November 19, 2021
- Steigender Ressourcenverbrauch, weniger soziale Gerechtigkeit (Austria), Der Standard (by Verena Mischitz), November 19, 2021
- No country has met welfare goals in past 30 years ‘without putting planet at risk’, The Guardian (by Larry Elliott), November 18, 2021
- Moving away from sustainability, Nature Sustainability News & Views (by Kai Fang), November 18, 2021
- Researchers track the social shortfall and ecological overshoot of nations, Doughnut Economics Action Lab, November 18, 2021
- Nations are overusing natural resources faster than they are meeting basic human needs, University of Leeds News, November 18, 2021
- Andrew Fanning: “Nuestras economías están diseñadas para crecer, no para ser regenerativas y distributivas. Eso tiene que cambiar”, Contexto (by Monica Di Donato), September 29, 2020
- Climate and economic risks ‘threaten 2008-style systemic collapse’, The Guardian (by Jonathan Watts), February 12, 2019
- Why Vietnam ranks best in world for living greener and better, South East Asia Globe (by Michael Tatarski), October 11, 2018
- Can humans live well without pillaging the planet?, Scientific American (by Mark Fischetti and Federica Fragapane), June 2018 Issue
- Vietnam, the unlikely poster child for a sustainable lifestyle, South China Morning Post (by David Dodwell), May 25, 2018
- Die grenzen des donuts (Germany), Frankfurter Rundschau (by Eva Mahnke), March 31, 2018
- Kate Raworth: “Los políticos están atrapados… Son adictos al crecimiento del PIB” (Spain), El Nacional (by Gustau Nerín), March 14, 2018
- Quality of life versus planetary thresholds – Leeds academics lay bare the scale of the challenge, Social Ecological Economics Network (by Billy Saundry), February 27, 2018
- Canada is unsustainable. So is everywhere else, The Tyee (by Crawford Kilian), February 23, 2018
- Doing well, but doing great harm, Times Colonist (by Trevor Hancock), February 16, 2018
- Fairer world may mean more modest dreams, Climate News Network (by Tim Radford), February 16, 2018
- 7 billion people, one planet. Can everyone’s needs be met?, The New York Times (by John Schwartz), February 14, 2018
- There might be no way to live comfortably without also ruining the planet, Science Alert (by David Nield), February 10, 2018
- Good life within planetary boundaries study misrepresented as wealth redistribution, Daily Kos, February 9, 2018
- The good life is killing the planet, but your best life could save it, Forbes (by Eric Mack), February 8, 2018
- No country on Earth is sustainably meeting its basic needs, Fast Company (by Adele Peters), February 8, 2018
- If we bring the good life to all, will we destroy the planet?, National Public Radio (by Nurith Aizenman), February 7, 2018
- Si queremos preservar la Tierra tendremos que vivir “peor”: hasta ahora no hemos demostrado otra cosa (Spain), Magnet (by Esther Miguel Trula), February 7, 2018
- Is the doughnut economy just pie in the sky?, Anthropocene Magazine (by Sarah DeWeerdt), February 6, 2018
- If we gave everyone a decent standard of living, could we sustain it?, Ars Technica (by Cathleen O’Grady), February 6, 2018
- Humanity must ‘dramatically reduce its resource use’ if it wants to keep living the good life, Daily Mail (by Cecile Borkhataria), February 6, 2018
- Are we defining economic success all wrong?, Pacific Standard (by Kevin Charles Fleming), February 5, 2018
- It may be impossible to live comfortably without trashing Earth, New Scientist (by Andy Coghlan), February 5, 2018
- Humanity will need to make some drastic changes if it wants to keep the ‘good life’ going, Los Angeles Times (by Karen Kaplan), February 5, 2018
More news coverage
- Culpan a EEUU y la UE de daños ecológicos por uso excesivo de materias primas (Spain), La Vanguardia, April 11, 2022
- Ученые оценили вклад развитых стран в избыточное потребление природных ресурсов (Russia), Naked Science (by Sergei Vasiliev), April 11, 2022
- L’Italia ha l’8° debito ecologico più grande del mondo (Italy), Rinnovabili, April 07, 2022
- Los países utilizan los recursos naturales más rápido que el desarrollo sostenible, incluso los países más verdes (Costa Rica), Once Noticias, November 21, 2021
- Studie: “Geen enkel land heeft voorbije dertig jaar een duurzame ontwikkeling gerealiseerd” (Belgium), Business AM (by Marc Horckmans), November 19, 2021
- Un buon welfare senza sforare i limiti del pianeta è possibile? (Italy), Rinnovabili, November 19, 2021
- Studie: “Geen enkel land heeft voorbije dertig jaar een duurzame ontwikkeling gerealiseerd” (Belgium), Business AM (by Marc Horckmans), November 19, 2021
- Economía ‘rosquilla’ para superar la crisis del virus (Spain), Agora Diario (by Eva M. Rull), November 13, 2020
- In Vietnam gaan welvaartsgroei en streng ecologisch beleid hand in hand (Netherlands), NRC Handelsblad (by Annemarie Kas), November 06, 2018
- I Danmark har vi høj social velvære, men vi sviner for meget (Denmark), Dagbladet Information (by Sebastian Gjerding), October 06, 2018
- Benestar i dispendi (Catalan), Ara (by Pere Brunet), May 24, 2018
- Das Dilemma des Gartens Eden (Switzerland), Der Bund (by Joachim Laukenmann), March 13, 2018
- Número de países sustentables: cero (Chile), Diario Financiero (by Carmen Gloria Solís), March 01, 2018
- Hva må til for å sikre en bærekraftig utvikling for alle? (Norway), Energi og Klima (by Gunnar Kvåle), February 22, 2018
- Living too well is unsustainable, Clean Malaysia, February 17, 2018
- A good life for all within planetary boundaries, Food Climate Research Network, February 16, 2018
- Ningún país cubre sus necesidades básicas a un ritmo sostenible (Bolivia), El Deber, February 11, 2018
- Cuộc sống tốt đẹp hơn có dẫn đến sự hủy hoại môi trường? (Vietnam), Vietnam+ (by Mai Nguyen), February 10, 2018
- Can we live well and sustainably?, The Naked Scientists (by Lewis Thomson), February 9, 2018
- Ningún país brinda bienestar sin hacer daño al planeta (y España está a la cola)(Spain), La Información (by Miguel Ayuso), February 9, 2018
- Zerstörung macht das Leben schöner (Germany), Spektrum (by Lars Fischer), February 7, 2018
- ما دور البشرية في استمرار الحياة على الأرض؟(Arabic), Russia Today, February 7, 2018
- Kein Land der Erde schafft Ressourcenverbrauch auf nachhaltigem Niveau (Germany), Der Standard, February 7, 2018
- The dark side of good life, The Telegraph India (by G.S. Mudur), February 6, 2018
- Ούτε μια χώρα στον κόσμο δεν προσφέρει μια καλή ζωή στους κατοίκους με περιβαλλοντικά βιώσιμο τρόπο. 7 στις 7 οι περιβαλλοντικές υπερβάσεις στην Ελλάδα (Greece), Huffington Post, February 6, 2018
- The biggest climate change decision: Should you have children?, Big Think (by Stephen Johnson), February 6, 2018
- Planetare Grenzen auf Länder heruntergebrochen (Germany), Jura Forum, February 6, 2018
- Per non superare i confini planetari e vivere decentemente sono necessari cambiamenti radicali (Italy), Green Report (by Umberto Mazzantini), February 6, 2018
- Can everyone on Earth live well without wrecking the planet? Newsy (by Steven Sparkman), February 5, 2018
- Developing world cannot sustainably achieve same living standards as West, says study, The Independent (by Josh Gabbatiss), February 5, 2018
- Britain is using far more than its share of world’s resources, iNews (by Tom Bawden), February 5, 2018
- Ningún país cubre necesidades básicas de ciudadanos en un marco sostenible (Spain), La Vanguardia, February 5, 2018
- Ningún país satisface necesidades a nivel sostenible para el planeta (Spain), Europa Press, February 5, 2018
- Living the good life sustainably, Nature Sustainability Press Release, February 5, 2018
- A good life for all within the planet’s means, University of Leeds Press Release, February 5, 2018
Critical coverage
- The Earth’s carrying capacity for human life is not fixed, Aeon (by Ted Nordhaus), July 05, 2018
- Is degrowth the only way to save the world?, Reason-Free Minds and Free Markets (by Ronald Bailey), February 16, 2018
- Environmentalists push global wealth redistribution, The National Review (by Wesley J. Smith), February 6, 2018