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Jonathan Schofield

@jgkoomey @ajsadauskas @green Thank you for taking the time to point to further nuance and reading. I’ll endeavour to dive in.

Like you, I hope we buck our ideas up. Fast

@urlyman @jgkoomey @ajsadauskas @green

Do any of these decoupling claims hold when looking at the global economic system as a whole?

While these statistics claim that they account for trade it is a very theoretical number. Would the emissions be the same if Ireland had to produce everything it imports locally? Just imagine that. Of course they would be much higher.

@urlyman @jgkoomey @ajsadauskas @green

The uncomfortable truth is that national accounting like that can make western countries feel good about themselves, but all it does is put colonial relations on display.

The two sobering graphs worth looking at are humanity's material footprint: unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/201 and global emissions: ourworldindata.org/grapher/tot

All lines go up.