At GDP per capita of somewhere close to $5,500 (in 2005 U.S. dollars), nations tend to reach a turning point: people become more environmentally conscious and nature starts to recover.https://humanprogress.org/article.php?p=2769 …
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@jasonhickel hasn’t this been refuted? The observed effect is because rich nations simply outsource their emissions by deindustrializing?
According to Our World in Data, many European countries have decreased CO2 emissions even when you include emissions embedded in imports.pic.twitter.com/5fJ1AwbGKf
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Interesting. Maybe there is strong coupling along some human development segments and then a decoupling? Excerpt from: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59bc0e610abd04bd1e067ccc/t/5cbdc638b208fc1c56f785a7/1555940922601/Hickel+and+Kallis+-+Is+Green+Growth+Possible.pdf …pic.twitter.com/l6IAX56158
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It depends on the impact in question. In terms of overall consumption-based resource use, impact rises with GDP, and high-income nations are by far the worst performers. I explain this here:https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/18/more-from-less-green-growth-environment-gdp/ …
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