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Oh hells bells, now cement is gonna kill ya
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Ya got to read this!!!!!!!
Now cement is going to kill you, or was it cold water from lake Erie; no, I remember it is drowning in Florida.
Earlier this year, Sara Law of the Carbon Disclosure Project raised her hand at a conference in New York on government and private sector initiatives to address climate change. She politely asked the panel, which had been assembled to discuss opportunities for investing in low-carbon infrastructure, whether they knew how much cement each project might require. The panel members shifted uncomfortably in their seats and chuckled; no one jumped in immediately to respond.
Law didn?t mean to embarrass her peers. But her question unraveled some of the panel?s forced optimism that has hung around climate conferences of late. Environmental academics and activists have been joined onstage by financiers with promises of investment opportunities in the ongoing transition to a more sustainable economy. Not many want to fret over cement, the world?s second-most consumed material behind water, and how its use in this economic transition might prevent our society from achieving its climate goals.
Because there are just so many opportunities, they say, for savvy investors and conservationists alike: renewable energy projects; new energy grids; updates to our nation?s battered piped water system (which leaks enough drinking water a day to serve 15 million households). Governments and environmentally minded investors luxuriate in these types of projects because they can help prevent human-caused, or anthropogenic, global warming without sacrificing economic growth.
The problem is that many of these projects require concrete. A lot of concrete. This worries Law and her colleagues at the Carbon Disclosure Project, a non-profit that tracks industrial greenhouse-gas emissions and promotes proper carbon disclosure. The CDP recently released a report, ?Building Pressure: Which cement companies will be left behind in the low-carbon transition,? warning the cement industry ? cement being the main binder in concrete ? that ?in its current form, it will not be compatible with? any nation?s commitment in the Paris agreement; and if radical changes do not occur the world will ?risk missing [its] climate goals.?
https://theoutline.com/post/5124/are-we-stuck-with-cement-environmental-impact?zd=1&zi=bkfanimi
Now cement is going to kill you, or was it cold water from lake Erie; no, I remember it is drowning in Florida.
Earlier this year, Sara Law of the Carbon Disclosure Project raised her hand at a conference in New York on government and private sector initiatives to address climate change. She politely asked the panel, which had been assembled to discuss opportunities for investing in low-carbon infrastructure, whether they knew how much cement each project might require. The panel members shifted uncomfortably in their seats and chuckled; no one jumped in immediately to respond.
Law didn?t mean to embarrass her peers. But her question unraveled some of the panel?s forced optimism that has hung around climate conferences of late. Environmental academics and activists have been joined onstage by financiers with promises of investment opportunities in the ongoing transition to a more sustainable economy. Not many want to fret over cement, the world?s second-most consumed material behind water, and how its use in this economic transition might prevent our society from achieving its climate goals.
Because there are just so many opportunities, they say, for savvy investors and conservationists alike: renewable energy projects; new energy grids; updates to our nation?s battered piped water system (which leaks enough drinking water a day to serve 15 million households). Governments and environmentally minded investors luxuriate in these types of projects because they can help prevent human-caused, or anthropogenic, global warming without sacrificing economic growth.
The problem is that many of these projects require concrete. A lot of concrete. This worries Law and her colleagues at the Carbon Disclosure Project, a non-profit that tracks industrial greenhouse-gas emissions and promotes proper carbon disclosure. The CDP recently released a report, ?Building Pressure: Which cement companies will be left behind in the low-carbon transition,? warning the cement industry ? cement being the main binder in concrete ? that ?in its current form, it will not be compatible with? any nation?s commitment in the Paris agreement; and if radical changes do not occur the world will ?risk missing [its] climate goals.?
https://theoutline.com/post/5124/are-we-stuck-with-cement-environmental-impact?zd=1&zi=bkfanimi
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Left wing Liberalism = Hysteria
Too much CO2? plant more trees, turn barren land into grassy meadows, carbonize more soft drinks. Unlimited possibilities to balance the CO2 and Oxygen and all will be to the betterment of the earth, seas and all their creatures.
In the Hudson Riva!
Kids must be getting tired of Tide Pods.
DEMOCRATs hate automobiles since all they do is pollute, so get rid of roads.
Like the ammo-gun analogy. No ammo no guns.
DEMOCRATs hate automobiles since all they do is KILL PEOPLE and pollute, so get rid of roads.
There! I fixed it for you![;)]
My Reserve unit had just came bk from Adak Alaska and they were doing Concrete work there.
Therm were some sorry looking guys when they came back. Burns on their face and arms.