What you are grappling with here is not "have we got a big enough economy". Global Warming does not come from value creation, or the statistical proxy that we c

What you are grappling with here is not "have we got a big enough economy". Global Warming does not come from value creation, or the statistical proxy that we call Economic Growth. It comes from burning fossile fuels. In terms of value, what we have learnt from the last two decades is that a few people with computers can create a lot of it, with negligible impact on our planetary ecosystem. Clearly it makes our lives easier, and gives us more "stuff". However, our physical existence still depends on fossilised energy to an alarming extent, and policymakers are still unable to wean us off it (witness the fuel subsidy debates in Egypy and Indonesia), or simply unwilling to. You can even say that we use so much of it due to lack of effort, i.e. an unwillingness to actually grow the economy enough by finding substitutes. Because that would involve people doing more work to learn the right technical skills, and that's unreasonable to demand, right? In fact, it might lower the environmental inpact, since an app with driving directions can make our car journeys more efficient.