In The News

See below for a selection of articles featuring our results in the news and popular press:

Articles written by us

• 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

• 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

• 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