The Jevons Paradox for PC Gamers

I have a confession to make. I’ve been kinda washed this past year. Read too much Substack-slop and now I’m getting rusty on my actual pet topics. So, I’m getting back into reading books again. The first book I’m reading is Slow Down by Kohei Saito – essentially a quick rundown of degrowth and all the arguments related to it. In short, the book is about the climate crisis and how the most common approaches to tackling it (green technologies, Green New Deals, etc.) are completely unserious and incapable of making any real dent on the problem1. There are many, many frameworks, facts, and angles presented throughout this book – too many for me to extensively cover here. Instead, I’d like to keep things simple and just go over one: the Jevons Paradox. This is not a book review2. I’m not going to go over every argument in the book here (although there are plenty), but instead focus on just one: the Jevons Paradox. The Jevons Paradox Typically, within climate politics, there tends to be…