Your life,
measured against
the planet.
Start from what a Dane costs the Earth on average. Answer eight questions. Watch which of the nine planetary boundaries your life actually moves — and which ones it doesn't.
StartThe nine
- Climate changeAtmospheric CO₂ concentration; radiative forcing
- Biosphere integrityRate of species extinction; genetic diversity; ecosystem function
- Land-system changeShare of land converted to farming, cities and infrastructure
- Biogeochemical flowsHuman-added nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) entering the environment
- Freshwater changeBlue water (rivers, lakes, groundwater) and green water (soil moisture)
- Novel entitiesRelease of synthetic chemicals, plastics, heavy metals, radioactive material
- Ocean acidificationOcean surface pH; aragonite saturation
- Atmospheric aerosol loadingConcentration of aerosols and microparticles (smoke, soot, dust)
- Stratospheric ozone depletionStratospheric ozone concentration
There is no score
Every footprint calculator eventually becomes a budget: cut here, spend there, stay under the line. That framing is the failure. Set a metric and people optimise the metric — skip the meat, take the flight, call it even. But the nitrogen you saved is not the nitrogen you spent, and a tonne of CO₂ does not buy back a hectare of habitat. So this gives you separate readings and refuses to add them up.
It isn't only yours
Your share is the safe operating space divided by everyone alive. It looks small because the space was never all ours: the room large grazers need to turn the soil, so the ground bees have somewhere to be and the birds that eat them have something to eat, is already inside the boundary — that is what a boundary is. There is a stricter method that charges Denmark for what it has already emitted. Under it your budget is negative. We show you the kinder one.
Most of it isn't your choice
The uncomfortable finding, visible the moment you look: a Dane's baseline consumption maxes out the allowance on its own. There isn't much to negotiate. Roads, hospitals, schools, the grid, the buildings — you carry that by living here, and no answer you give moves it. Each reading shows you that floor separately, so you can see the size of what you actually control.
One boundary is healing
The ozone layer is recovering. Not because anyone shopped carefully — because the Montreal Protocol banned CFCs in 1987 and the problem went away. It stays on your dashboard, unscored, as the control case. If this tool leaves you thinking the lever is your grocery basket rather than the rules everyone plays by, it has misled you.