## The 2008 economic crisis changed the US’s relationship with energy It wasn’t obvious at the time, but the US uncoupled carbon emissions and GDP growth. One argument that often comes up about climate change is that fossil fuels are good because they powered economic growth that has left most people better off overall. And, to an extent, that has been true, but it’s also an extremely limited perspective. It’s pretty obvious now that the growth they powered has come with very high costs that we’ve only recently started to pay, in the form of damages and disruptions from extreme weather…