Looking through the dataquadrate: characterizing the human-environment relationship through economic, hedonic, ecological and demographic measures

► Dataquadrates are used to plot GDP, the ecological footprint, subjective wellbeing and population. ► Celestial footprint is defined as the ratio of human wellbeing to human environmental load. ► EKC, Jevons' paradox and Easterlin paradox are analyzed in the USA and in China.