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   Jonathan Schofield (urlyman@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 06:49:38 JST Jonathan Schofield

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   …a culture that understood climate science as existential would manage demand *first* while it explored potential technical fixes.

   We’re exploring technical fixes while pouring petrol on the fire

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     Jonathan Schofield (urlyman@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 06:49:39 JST Jonathan Schofield

     Thing 1, thing 2,
     and induced demand.

     If you build thing 1 so that it enables more of thing 2 to happen, then it should not come as a surprise when more of thing 2 happens.

     Now, if thing 2 *already* has a low* carbon and material footprint – like cycling – the induced demand is of low (not no) impact.

     But if thing 2 is not low carbon, you’ve made cumulative overshoot *worse*

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     *relative to its alternatives

     Aral Balkan repeated this.