The 01 October²⁵ issue of Nature contains a paper on a “doughnut-shaped representation of social and planetary boundaries towards meeting the needs of all people within the means of the living planet”. With the side description including a warning
“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.”
which compounds the shortcomings of the original if unmentioned Nightingale rose, as pointed out by Edward Tufte and (CHANCE colleague) Howard Wainer. (And add insult to injury by switching from a rose to the worst ever junk food!) Quiz time: how many dimensions are crammed into the proposed representation? And do they exceed the number of unhealthy ingredients in a doughnut?!
