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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
>occurs when technological progress or government policy increases the efficiency with which a resource is used (reducing the amount necessary for any one use), but the falling cost of use induces increases in demand enough that resource use is increased, rather than reduced.

>governments typically ignore it