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Life without electric cars 🔋⚡️
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Life with electric cars
HT Mikael Colville-Andersen
#JevonsParadox
Marc Ostwald explores some of the #challenges to #EnergyTransition in terms of #financing , access to #resources , establishing a robust #RegulatoryFramework , and standardizing #emission #measurement
Read Marc's article: content.yudu.com/web/400wi/0A40…
#JevonsParadox #EnergyEfficiency
#JevonsParadox is one of many reasons why #technology fixes rarely create the kinds of good-for-society results that techno optimists like to believe they do. Rather than billions of more efficient cars or even EVs, we need FEWER cars and smarter transportation infrastructure.
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Highway without electric cars
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Highway with electric cars 🔋⚡️
HT Mikael Colville-Andersen
#JevonsParadox
The Jevons Paradox: Does Efficiency Always Mean Sustainability In The Digital Age? #jevonsparadox #DigitalSustainability
For a long time I didn’t get why traffic engineers ignored the clear evidence of #InducedDemand / #JevonsParadox (adding more traffic lanes just induces more driving). Then it clicked. It’s human behaviour aka social science. They didnt learn that in school.
Contrary to the fear that AI might replace software engineers, the #JevonsParadox suggests that the demand for software engineers may actually increase. As AI makes software development more efficient, it could lead to an expansion of the software industry, creating more jobs
Must see Aussie traffic planning skit for all transpo peeps. “Road widening costs billions, saves us 2 min then traffic gets worse? What?
#JevonsParadox isn’t a death metal band. It’s #inducedTraffic ”. abctv #Utopia / #Dreamland
Now that the “fuel” costs of electric pickups are much lower, will we see these monstrous aggressors on UK streets? #jevonsParadox
Takeaways from Purdue Institute for a Sustainable Future #degrowth panel:
▪️ Economic growth increases material extraction + decoupling is an accounting trick
▪️ Plans to reduce GHGs rely on efficiency and ignore the #jevonsparadox
▪️ GDP does not reflect wellbeing or equity
▪️ Degrowth attracts crowds of ppl!
This is still brilliant.
“It means you spend a lot of money now for a very short-term benefit.'
“I guess for $300 billion we were hoping for something a little more dramatic.”
#JevonsParadox isn’t a death metal band. It’s #inducedTraffic . Via abctv
Un vídeo muy claro sobre el pobre resultado que tiene ampliar la capacidad vial para solucionar los problemas de congestión
#JevonsParadox #DemandaInducida vía abctv
h/t Brent Toderian
The problem of too many cars isn’t just about the tailpipe. And altho EVs seemingly address that issue (or “move” it, depending on the electricity source), their increased weight, and the potential increase in size & distance driven (due to #JevonsParadox ) make EVs “complicated.”
Obviously, electric cars take up the same space as internal combustion vehicles. But here’s the rub —once you understand #JevonsParadox , you get that electric vehicles may very well lead to MORE cars, MORE driving, LARGER vehicles, and BIGGER consequences. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_pa…
#RenovablesTV3
Què tal en si comptes de 168 TWh de demanda (i pujant per #JevonsParadox ) es fan polítiques perquè aquesta sigui cada cop menor?
Per exemple decréixer l'automoció privada -principal fagocitafor energètic- en comptes de potenciar-la més
#NoEnsVendreuLaMoto
A wonderful session with Dr. Stanley Asah School for Resource & Environmental Studies on behavioural/social #adaptation theories such as #JevonsParadox , rebound & backfire effects & moral (environmental) #licensing , and the importance of #leadership !
NSERC / CRSNG
20 years of change in the US beef industry according to data from USDA and US EPA. Reducing emissions intensity can mean lowering total GHG emissions. We can do more in the future to⬇️ GHG emissions, improve resiliency, & enhance the advantages of beef (upcycling). #Jevonsparadox
In economics, the #Jevonsparadox occurs when technological progress increases the efficiency with which a resource is used, but the falling cost of use induces increases in demand enough that resource use is increased, rather than reduced #Engineering #AI #DesignThinking
📣New article on Jevons’ Paradox, published in Energy Research & Social Science: ‘Governing Jevons’ Paradox: Policies and Systemic Alternatives to Avoid the Rebound Effect’. 50 days' free Access here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
#jevonsparadox #Sustainability Elsevier Energy
