Your rhetorical argument is a complete fallacy. I could just as easily point to china and show what their complete lack of pollution control as done for their GDP growth.
There is no way that regulating ghg’s can have anything but a depressive effect on the economy as a whole (subsidies and regulations for GHG’s take from producers and give to non producers). Other aspects of the economy can be sufficiently strong to overcome this depressive effect (probably the case for germany). There is no 1-1 correlation…only influence.
