In the U.S. and Europe, public debate centers on China as a low-cost producer that puts workers in the developed world out to pasture;hence the popularity of antitrade legislation.
I think artificial intelligence will actually help create new kinds of jobs, which would require less of our time and allow us to be centered on creative tasks.
The studies also ran up against many methodological challenges, the biggest of which centered on the old statistical saying, " Correlation does not equal causation" .
Things didn't really change until the second half of the 20th Century when, after two world wars and a depression, meals were rather smaller, even for the rich, and feasts centered on one meaty roast.
Both for moral and practical reasons, those of us in richer countries need to realize that addressing climate change will necessarily center on a massive expansion of energy access in developing countries.