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"rich countries have started to grow while using less and less of the planet’s most important resources."

Does this include the outsourcing of production to countries in asia?

The article is handwavy about this, but states that outsourcing is included.

I think the CO2 graphs are trade-adjusted but those resource usage graphs come from USGS so I doubt it takes imports into account (especially given imports would include processed goods, manufactured parts etc. where estimating the resource use would be tricky)

It says trade adjusted, but this seems only to include the production. "To calculate consumption-based emissions we need to track which goods are traded across the world, and whenever a good was imported we need to include all CO2 emissions that were emitted in the production of that good, and vice versa to subtract all CO2 emissions that were emitted in the production of goods that were exported."

What about shipping? And the production of the shipping vessels? Waste disposal?

It does not.

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