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Voting our way into the safe and just space for humanity

Kate Raworth's Doughnut describes the safe and just space for humanity. It lies between a social foundation, below which people fall short on life's essentials, and an ecological ceiling of nine planetary boundaries, beyond which humanity overshoots what the planet can sustain. Each of the 21 dimensions is rated Independent, Helpful, Necessary, or Pivotal on how far reaching the safe and just space depends on owners voting their values to change what companies do or what companies lobby for. We scored every dimension as dependent on owners voting their shares according to their values, and 16 of the 21 as either necessary or pivotal. Each wedge fills by one third per step, so a fully filled wedge is Pivotal and an empty one is Independent. These ratings are in beta. We are still refining the method, and we publish corrections based on feedback. Click any segment.

THE SAFE AND JUST SPACE FOR HUMANITY A REGENERATIVE AND DISTRIBUTIVE ECONOMY Climate Change Ocean Acidification Introduction ofNovel Entities Modification ofBiogeochemical Flows Freshwater Change Land SystemChange Change inBiosphere Integrity Increase inAtmospheric Aerosol Loading Stratospheric OzoneDepletion Food Health Education Income &Work Water Energy Networks Housing GenderEquality SocialEquity PoliticalVoice Peace &Justice

Ecological ceiling

Climate ChangePivotal
Ocean AcidificationPivotal
Introduction of Novel EntitiesPivotal
Modification of Biogeochemical FlowsNecessary
Freshwater ChangeNecessary
Land System ChangePivotal
Change in Biosphere IntegrityNecessary
Increase in Atmospheric Aerosol LoadingNecessary
Stratospheric Ozone DepletionHelpful

Social foundation

FoodHelpful
HealthNecessary
EducationHelpful
Income and WorkNecessary
WaterHelpful
EnergyNecessary
NetworksNecessary
HousingHelpful
Gender EqualityNecessary
Social EquityNecessary
Political VoiceNecessary
Peace and JusticeNecessary

Behind the score. Each dimension was asked two questions. Does the outcome depend on companies changing what they make, sell, employ, emit, or discharge? Is the outcome blocked by company lobbying and political giving? Each answer counts on its own and the higher one sets the score. A dimension whose conduct answer is "decisively", or whose lobbying answer is "blocking", scores 3; "necessarily, but others must act too" scores 2; "helpfully" or "slows it" scores 1; "not really" to both scores 0. Shareholder democracy acts on both through the same vote.

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The Doughnut framework is by Kate Raworth and the Doughnut Economics Action Lab; dimension names and status follow the planetary boundaries science (Stockholm Resilience Centre; Planetary Health Check 2025: seven of nine boundaries transgressed) and Fanning and Raworth, Nature, 2025. Scores are Shareholder Democracy analytical judgments from the cited evidence, not findings of DEAL or the boundary scientists. Every citation was fetched and checked against the claim it supports. August 2026. Methodology