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I’m really not surprised by this news : Unfortunately, global warming is consubstantial with human activity. In fact, the only thing that is ecological, is poverty. I'm not trolling, I'm serious : By the laws of physics, the richer you are, the more you consume, the more you pollute by producing CO2. All the people who tell you that you can keep the same GDP while producing less CO2 are wrong.

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Emissions are going down in many countries and their GDP isn't shrinking. In fact, if you invested more in emission reductions you could probably increase GDP growth.

Is that true? Is it still true if you take into account that the CO2 emissions are maybe emitted say in China, to produce the goods of those supposedly virtuous countries?

Western countries transferred manufacturing to Asia.

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