Akielly Hu

Akielly Hu is a former Grist news and politics reporting fellow.

Trading at the Chinese Gold and Silver Exchange

How to ‘decouple’ emissions from economic growth? These economists say you can’t.

The stakes of this academic debate are high: If decoupling is a mirage, then addressing the climate crisis may require letting go of the pursuit of economic growth altogether and instead embracing a radically different vision of a thriving society

March 6, 2024