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Re:Save like a pessimist, invest like an optimist by dredmorbius on Sunday November 15, 2020 @01:58PM (#25103683)
The decoupling argument breaks down when imports are considered.

"The material footprint of nations", Thomas O. Wiedmann, Heinz Schandl, Manfred Lenzen, Daniel Moran, Sangwon Suh, James West, and Keiichiro Kanemoto

PNAS first published September 3, 2013; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1220362110

https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/08/28/1220362110

https://web.archive.org/web/20130906063246/https://newsroom....

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Re:Save like a pessimist, invest like an optimist by lern_too_spel on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @01:31AM (#25120847)
That study shows zero growth in resource consumption instead of the negative growth observed without their methodology. This does not match the exponential growth in per capita consumption that the physicist assumes.
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