How we talk about things

3 Jun 2011 - Some very good, leading edge companies now proclaim their intent to 'decouple growth from carbon' or some similar aspiration. This is not going to happen. If you decouple a train - the carriages are no longer linked. One can move forwards whilst the other is slipping backwards. It is the wrong language. If growth is about real stuff being manufactured and used by real people, then...