Prosperity should not only be about increasing material wealth, but should also be about giving and receiving love, enjoying life by doing meaningful work, enjoying the respect of peers and having a connection with community. For humans to thrive while reducing consumption will not be an easy task, yet it offers the best alternative prospect we have for lasting prosperity. Jackson also pushed back against the concept of decoupling. There are two types of decoupling; relative and absolute. Since economic capitalists are supposed to increase efficiency, as the economy grows, the impact the economy has on the environment will decrease relative to GDP growth. The energy needed for production has fallen by a third in the last decade. Over the same period, energy consumption increased by 40%. In relative terms, global carbon intensity has declined relative to GDP growth, however, in absolute terms, resource impacts have increased