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Rather late for the Economist to discover that the west imports its manufactured goods.

• mpweiher 4y ago
  From TFA: "Strikingly, consumption emissions, which include a measure of the carbon embedded in imports, have fallen by 15% over the same period."
  • mjburgess 4y ago
    Unless there's a global GDP graph showing the same, we're not decoupled. Or, you could say, we're in an era of weak decoupling where high-tail QoL can be marginally improved without negative env. externalities. That isnt "strong decoupling" where the bulk of QoL improvements around the world lie. We're interested in GDP growth because it's highly correlated with QoL. Rich-world marginal QoL improvements aren't interesting, nor is their alleged decoupling. The economist here says the world can get rich from services... er, No. For 80% of the population they dont need more services to improve QoL.