Gwyneth Paltrow - ' a conscious uncoupling in under way"

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ith the colour and noise accompanying the Pope throwing his considerable weight behind global action to combat climate change, you may have missed the sound of something snapping.

Gwyneth Paltrow.

To put it another way – and borrow a line from Gwyneth Paltrow – a conscious uncoupling is under way.

With a large developing world rising from poverty as rapidly as possible, experts stress the link between economic growth and greenhouse gas emissions must be severed. For generations, the latter has surged along with the former.

Read the Melbourne Age story - “The sound of something snapping: God, Gwyneth and a glimmer of good climate news”.