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" ... And no, before you ask, this reduction in natural resource usage is not just the result of our economies switching from goods to services. While goods have been declining compared to services as a percentage of total GDP, the output and consumption of products has carried on increasing in absolute terms. We are experiencing a great decoupling: we are de-materialising industrial production. (This is actually quite an old idea: it was called ephemeralisation by Buckminster Fuller back in 1927. You may remember him as the inventor of geodesic domes, which are very efficient structures.) ... "