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> Isn't the core issue that energy use and economic growth are deeply connected?

That's only true up to a point (see: efficiency, the length of logistics chains & so on). For the remainder, GHG footprint only holds for fossil-dependent economies.

Move to renewables & you're literally decoupling energy use from GHG emissions.

They are connected but you'd try to make it global, and switch towards greener energy like solar so growth continues,

I mean that sounds nice, but when you have countries like China and India, they are going to be far more focused on lifting their population out of poverty over lowering emissions. From their perspective, we're living the planet destroying lives and the first world shouldn't have a say in the matter

I think the pollution from the USA are way beyond what's necessary for their GDP