China's government has announced a slightly lower GDP growth target for the country--and also said that it was time to bring those blue skies back. Both are fine in and of themselves but there's an interesting contradiction here which is that perhaps the best way to bring those blue skies back is to increase the economic growth rate. We could thus say that lower economic growth will reduce the pollution. And as it happens China is at just about the same stage of economic wealth as England was then. Thus, cleaning up China's pollution would be aided by a faster GDP growth rate, not a slower one.

Source: Forbes March 05, 2017 09:58 UTC