Empirically, economic growth has always been related to consumption of energy and raw materials. One explanation is the Rebound effect[1] Maybe theorically the

Empirically, economic growth has always been related to consumption of energy and raw materials. One explanation is the Rebound effect[1] Maybe theorically they can be decoupled, but we have yet to see that in the real world. More about it: https://eeb.org/library/decoupling-debunked/ https://eeb.org/library/decoupling-debunked/ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebound_effect_(conservation) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebound_effect_(conservation)