Economic growth no longer requires rising emissions
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Economic growth no longer requires rising emissions
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Re: Economic growth no longer requires rising emissions
#2> A large and growing group of mostly rich countries has severed the link between economic growth and rising emissions of greenhouse gases
so they outsourced production to the poor countries.
Re: Economic growth no longer requires rising emissions
#3Rather late for the Economist to discover that the west imports its manufactured goods.
Re: Economic growth no longer requires rising emissions
#4> A large and growing group of mostly rich countries has severed the link between economic growth and rising emissions of greenhouse gases so they outsourced production to the poor countries.
From TFA:
"Strikingly, consumption emissions, which include a measure of the carbon embedded in imports, have fallen by 15% over the same period."
Re: Economic growth no longer requires rising emissions
#5Rather late for the Economist to discover that the west imports its manufactured goods.
From TFA:
"Strikingly, consumption emissions, which include a measure of the carbon embedded in imports, have fallen by 15% over the same period."
Re: Economic growth no longer requires rising emissions
#6The real problem is that people are usually blind: almost nobody reasons about philosophic implications of induction. What I mean is this: can we know that in the portion of knowledge we don't know there isn't an even worse problem? In general we can't know the unknown, but we should at least try to look
Re: Economic growth no longer requires rising emissions
#7> A large and growing group of mostly rich countries has severed the link between economic growth and rising emissions of greenhouse gases so they outsourced production to the poor countries.
From TFA: "Strikingly, consumption emissions, which include a measure of the carbon embedded in imports, have fallen by 15% over the same period."
Also, here's a graph from Our World In Data using consumption-based accounting for CO2 emissions. Note that US, Europe, and even India are declining in consumption (and China seems to be plateauing)
https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/co2?facet=none&country=...
Re: Economic growth no longer requires rising emissions
#8Of course some decoupling exists. But decoupling from CO2 only, and even then, not with a sufficient pace, by far.
Re: Economic growth no longer requires rising emissions
#9> A large and growing group of mostly rich countries has severed the link between economic growth and rising emissions of greenhouse gases so they outsourced production to the poor countries.
From TFA: "Strikingly, consumption emissions, which include a measure of the carbon embedded in imports, have fallen by 15% over the same period."
In other words, China increased its nuclear power production
Re: Economic growth no longer requires rising emissions
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
From TFA: "Strikingly, consumption emissions, which include a measure of the carbon embedded in imports, have fallen by 15% over the same period."
In other words, China increased its nuclear power production
Consumption-based accounting shows across-the-board drop in the rate of CO2 emissions (for every continent [0]). Consumption-based accounting is, to quote OWID:
> production-based emissions minus emissions embedded in exports, plus emissions embedded in imports
[0] https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/co2?facet=none&country=...