Charles Kenny on the Material Progress of the Developing World
The Good Fight
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The Mother of All Stuff Problems
Greenhouse gas emissions and economic output have decoupled in the richest countries greenhouse gas emissions going down. Economic growth is not all we might hope but it's still going up, he says. We seem to have managed at least in you know the richer countries the thing that needs to happen which is decoupling output from greenhouse gas emissions to some extent again there is a long way to go i think we made more progress than people like me at least have any rights to expect I helped put a little bit of meat on the bones of your relative optimism said Tony Blair.
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