> While economy has historically been coupled to resource and energy usage, recently we have decoupled economic growth from things like that I get what you are

> While economy has historically been coupled to resource and energy usage, recently we have decoupled economic growth from things like that I get what you are saying but I would need to see this sustained before I believe that we have finally broken the back of GDP to Ecological Footprint linkage. I'm not optimistic about mankind's ability to keep its footprint under control.