>> growth in fossil fuel use are very closely tied >I have debunked this in another comment [1]. Energy intensity of GDP has been falling for decades. The carb

>> growth in fossil fuel use are very closely tied >I have debunked this in another comment [1]. Energy intensity of GDP has been falling for decades. The carbon intensity of our economy is falling faster. Both can be true, energy intensity of GDP has been falling even worldwide. But GDP and energy consumption is still correlated, i.e. you can plot a nice regression line in this plot: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-use-per-capita-vs-gdp-per-capita https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-use-per-capita-vs-... There is some debate as to the direction of the causal link, it's probably dynamic and context dependant, but the correlation is definitely here.