This poem was inspired by the book Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist by Kate Raworth. I really enjoyed reading this book and would encourage anyone else interested to read or listen to it as well.
Imagine a doughnut sprinkled with goodness Nothing inside it Nothing around it Imagine a doughnut iced, sweet and delicious That circle is enough Light and airy good stuff It does not need to grow And if you fill the hole It is no longer a doughnut but something else We produce the dough, sprinkles and glaze Too much dough and we distort the shape What falls in the hole is lost you might say There is enough in our doughnut When there’s too much the thing blows up When there is too little We fall through the middle When we produce we use When we use we must not abuse People or planet or we lose Imagine a doughnut as a complex ecosystem In the circle there is enough Enough to share for all of us Imagine the doughnut economic system Those living in poverty fall in Outside is resource exploitation Our doughnut is distorted and thin Now we see the turmoil that happens When we manufacture the poor With indifferent intentionality And when the rich engage in war On the ethics of fact and reality Storms break our homes And we’re left feeling alone Fighting for what we need to survive While we watch our home world die But it’s a doughnut . . . It’s a circle of life Sweet, light boundaries of life Like a warm doughnut With potential to delight And the joy of a shared life
https://mappingignorance.org/2022/12/05/the-fake-sweetness-of-doughnut-economics/