Satellite imagery shows Northern California kelp forests have collapsed

Re:Satellite imagery shows Northern California kelp forests ... by PeterisP on Sunday March 14, 2021 @08:45PM (#26461260)

While economy has historically been coupled to resource and energy usage, recently we have decoupled economic growth from things like that, countries can and do have economic growth with stable or decreasing ecological footprint as the service economy and digital/attention economy can provide more and more things people want without necessarily consuming more physical resources.

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Re:Satellite imagery shows Northern California kelp forests ... by monkeydreams on Monday March 15, 2021 @12:04AM (#26462521)

> 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.

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Re:Satellite imagery shows Northern California kelp forests ... by tsimionescu on Monday March 15, 2021 @04:31AM (#26463678)

A lot of the time, that is only achieved by outsourcing production and other high-environmental tole activities to the third world. I am extremely skeptical of most countries claiming to have achieved this.

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Re:Satellite imagery shows Northern California kelp forests ... by CryptoPunk on Monday March 15, 2021 @05:15AM (#26463906)

Do you have a source for this? Considering the basic improvements seen in the efficiency of various devices and processes, I'm dubious that the outsourcing of environmentally costly activity is the cause of this GDP-resources trend.

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