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Re:This Can't Go On by dwaltrip on Sunday August 20, 2023 @05:24PM (#37203051)
Economic growth is strongly correlated with energy usage. Energy requires atoms.
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Re:This Can't Go On by konschubert on Sunday August 20, 2023 @05:29PM (#37203091)
> A number of countries have decoupled economic growth from energy use, even if we take offshored production into account

https://ourworldindata.org/energy-gdp-decoupling

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Re:This Can't Go On by dwaltrip on Monday August 21, 2023 @01:22PM (#37212584)
Ah good point, I forgot the degree to which that was happening.

I’m very curious to see how that plays out long term.

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