Raised Orthodox Reductionist, recently converted to New Systemism. Loops, not lines. Everything in layers. Both brains required, not just the one we keep using.
The leftmost bar shows that in 2001, scientists believed that 'large-scale discontinuities' might only occur with 3-5C of warming. But as research has deepened over the last 20 years, scientists have steadily lowered their predictions of when discontinuities may occur.
It depicts 2 contrasting mindsets about the relationship between economy and environment that lie at the heart of the climate change debate, though people's intuition for one or the other is often held implicitly, leaving different actors talking past each other.
TL/DR: decoupling charts show some countries are now reducing emissions while still growing GDP, but the climate challenge is to reduce absolute global emissions to near zero before it is too late. The former does not at all guarantee the latter.
A 'fix that fails' is a systems archetype in which a first-order solution triggers a less apparent or delayed, second-order unintended consequence. Too many of our sustainability 'solutions' have rebound and backfire effects. (2/11) 
... is that we are all 'economist' and 'ecologist'! Because we have left 'economic' and right 'ecological' brains. "The left brain deals with pieces of information, the right brain with the entity as a whole." (Iain McGilchrist). 