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#112 - Efficiency and Expansion
Over two centuries, energy efficiency has improved dramatically. Engines are cleaner, technologies smarter, and optimisation seems constant. Yet total energy use and material extraction continue to rise. Revisiting Jevons’ 19th-century insight, this reflection explores how efficiency gains can fuel expansion rather than reduction — and asks what it would take for efficiency to translate into sufficiency instead of scale.
Adam Pawel Pietruszewski
Feb 253 min read
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