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Crelis Rammelt @crelis.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Today’s global dependency: the productive centre offshores industry to the productive periphery; this hasn’t closed the income gap; and persistent currency undervaluation in the periphery entrenches its unequal terms of trade. See full story and link here: crelis.nl/2025/05/30/t...

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Crelis Rammelt @crelis.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

As a group, high-income countries consume 24.1% more embodied raw materials than they extract, bridging the gap with imports. Meanwhile, low-income countries consume 13.3% less than they extract, exporting the rest. See full description and link to the paper here: crelis.nl/2025/05/30/t...

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Crelis Rammelt @crelis.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

This graph from our new paper on #EcologicalUnequalExchange combines Raw Material Consumption per capita (x-axis), Raw Material Trade Balances (y-axis), income clusters (colours), Domestic Value-Added (bubble size), and trend lines. Full description and link to the paper: crelis.nl/2025/04/17/w...

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Crelis Rammelt @crelis.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

(¶) The Myth of Infinite Efficiency There’s no absolute global decoupling of material consumption from economic growth—just some relative decoupling, and even that’s fading. The world economy is becoming more resource-intensive, not less... crelis.nl/2025/03/20/t...

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The Myth of Infinite Efficiency

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Crelis Rammelt @crelis.bsky.social · 22/08/2024

Green growth proponents continue to produce flawed graphs that claim to show the decoupling of emissions from economic growth. These graphs are repeatedly critiqued, but the critiques are ignored, leading to a cycle of misleading representations.

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A homework assignment for “green growthers”

Green growth proponents continue to produce flawed graphs that claim to show the decoupling of emissions from economic growth. These graphs are repeatedly criti

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Crelis Rammelt @crelis.bsky.social · 27/03/2024

What is entropy? How does capitalism overwhelm natural entropy-reducing processes? Why is green capitalism doomed to fail? Here is my attempt to offer simple answers to these complex questions: www.paecon.net/PAEReview/is...

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Crelis Rammelt @crelis.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

Wow! The UN has changed their 8th SDG!

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