Blue-haired Dr Seuss characters Thing 1 and Thing 2, seated back to back and wearing labelled red onesies.

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1. Jonathan Schofield (urlyman@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 06:49:07 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