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Kate Raworth

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  1. “You got it. And so the shape of progress changes, right? In the 20th century, and in fact, you still hear it in parliaments and in economics departments today. I think it's the 20th century shape of progress. It's an exponential curve, an ever-rising line of growth that goes through the ceiling. The 21st century shape of progress is thriving in balance between that inner and outer circle. It's more like a heartbeat. And actually, I believe that if we're going to give ourselves half a chance politically and socially to learn this, we need to reconnect what we already know in our own bodies, right? Every one of us understands that health in the human body is about balance, enough food, but not too much, enough heat, but not too much, enough water.”

    2023-06-12 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 22: Kate Raworth: Doughnut economics and thriving in balance · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “This is the outside ring, right? So leave no one in the hole, but don't go over the outer ring either because there we break down. The very planet that sustains us.”

    2023-06-12 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 22: Kate Raworth: Doughnut economics and thriving in balance · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “Okay, think of a donut. Come with a hole in the middle, right? And think of humanity's use of earth resources radiating out from the middle of that picture. The hole in the middle is a place where people are falling short in the essentials of life. It's where people do not have the resources they need for health and education and housing, political voice, income, right? These are the human rights of all people. So leave no one in the hole. Get everybody out of that middle circle. But as humanity collectively use Earth's resources, we start putting pressure on the life support systems of our planetary home. We start to cause climate breakdown and we acidify the oceans and we create a hole in the ozone layer and we withdraw too much water.”

    2023-06-12 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 22: Kate Raworth: Doughnut economics and thriving in balance · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “In a paragraph The twentieth century economic obsession with endless growth is destroying the living planet and creating massive inequality. It is time instead of trying to grow endlessly to grow up and learn to thrive imbalance so that we meet the needs of all people and we come back within the means of the only known living planet in the universe what's not to like.”

    2023-06-12 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 22: Kate Raworth: Doughnut economics and thriving in balance · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “So I'm going to proactively argue for what we're for. We are for a UK that thrives. That means people have good jobs in communities, their kids go to good schools, they breathe clean air as they bike to school. People feel respected and belong and they need it. We are regenerating UK nature, which is amongst the most depleted in the world. We are bringing back the life-supporting systems of this country. So we have fertile source so we can provide for ourselves. Isn't that what people actually want? It's a vision that makes far more sense on the doorstep than saying, oh, we want GDP to grow by 2% a year. Whose growth is that? Whose pockets does that get into? So I think it actually speaks much more to what people want, which is why these ideas are taking off in towns and cities and communities. Could it make sense to people in their lives?”

    2023-06-12 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 22: Kate Raworth: Doughnut economics and thriving in balance · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “No, you say we want to thrive We want to thrive, right? I mean, growth is a wonderful, healthy phase of life. That's why we love to see our kids go. That's why we love to see our gardens grow. But nothing in nature succeeds by growing forever. Everything in nature grows and then grows up and matures, and that's what enables it to thrive. That's why oak trees grow for three hundred years, then they thrive.”

    2023-06-12 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 22: Kate Raworth: Doughnut economics and thriving in balance · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “Okay, so I feel that we are really stuck. Let's start with the UK, actually. I think we've come to a very narrow political framing that I thought we were getting away from, where in the recent months we've had politicians on both sides of the house saying the goal is growth, growth, growth. I find that alarming because we are destroying the only known living planet in the universe, and billions of people worldwide and in this country cannot meet their most essential needs. So we should be rooting our economies in meeting the needs of all people within the means of this delicately balanced living planet.”

    2023-06-12 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 22: Kate Raworth: Doughnut economics and thriving in balance · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source