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Failure mode · gene 8 of 14
failure:success-caused
Not 'the fix failed' but 'the fix worked, and its working is the harm'. Efficient LED lighting made light so cheap that total consumption rose. Decades of successful wildfire suppression let fuel accumulate into catastrophic fires. Coal plants closing — a win — cut off the fly ash that concrete quietly depended on. These problems are humbling and fascinating: the cause isn't incompetence, it's victory, and any new solution has to anticipate its own side effects.
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