Systems, Incentives, and Carparks

Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

It was January 2018, my first week in Australia, and the thing I remember most clearly — more clearly even than the heat — was the light. After five Swedish winters I had been carrying around a small private hunger for it, and Melbourne handed it back on the very first afternoon, generously, almost extravagantly.

The blackouts started a few weeks later. 42°C, every air-conditioner in the suburb running at the same time, the grid trips, the lights go, and you stand in your kitchen in the dark in mild disbelief that one of the sunniest countries on Earth cannot keep its fridge cold. It happened the next summer too, and the one after that.

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Systems, Incentives, and Carparks