Introduction to Decoupling

[@MetabolismofCities]

Thanks for the great work as always!!

[@andreasrahutomo7486]

thank you very much. I think resource & impact decoupling could be achieved through either maximizing the circular economy (the hard way) or minimising human population (an even harder way). =)

[@pinchertone]

I don't think any of these 2 would work. I have just reading about it so my feelings might sound premature but: how can you decouple the resources demand & human impacts in general if the world GDP keeps growing? just think about it: Society builds one thing for me. to build it, it extracts, pollute, burns stuff. The next year I am not happy anymore: I want now 2 things! and this trend can't stop becz if it stopped the whole economy would collapse. On the other hand I am investing on resource efficiency, energy efficiency so my second thing will have a lower impact than the first one. Yes. But whilst efficiency can make energy consumption (for instance) close to 0 (theoretically), the GDP has just no mathematical upper limit. even here they report how from 1970 and 2000 all OCSE nations decoupled GDP and CO2 emissions. Yeah (maybe). Yet CO2 is just the most famous of impactes. Building solar panels to cover the planet demands huge quantities of resources. So we're playing with graphs: we create catastrophes on some graphs just to reduce CO2 emissions. that's not the answer, I fear. I found no other solution (yet) than GDP degrowth.

[@Sara11396]

This is complete BS.

[@JeremyThomas_Environmentarian]

Fantastic to see that economic growth has been decoupled from emissions in most of Europe. Plenty more sectors to work on so let get to it! Using more hempcrete in the building industry would help. kzbin.info/aero/PLf1PE183xZVLUEs_5jiaHpzV2Jk2OFggs&si=Cb9eCtl_sFpWseSS