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by Gwypaas 1051 days ago
Many advanced economies have decoupled energy use from economic growth.

https://ourworldindata.org/energy-gdp-decoupling

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USA, and some western Europe, exported dirty manufacturing energy use and pollution outside the borders. Any nation rich or strong enough to export pollution of manufacturing will tend to show the numbers you highlight.
I recommend you read the short linked article before making strong statements.

> It would be wrong to assume that rich countries have only achieved this by offshoring manufacturing overseas – which would simply mean that other countries are consuming this energy on their behalf. Consumption-based energy use – which adjusts for the energy used to produce the goods we import and export – has also plateaued or fallen in many countries. We see this clearly in the chart for Sweden.