Concrete: Destructive material
Concrete is one of the most used substance used around the world just behind water. Unlike water, concrete is very dangerous to the planet and even to humans. The global building industry’s pour more then 19,000 bathtubs of concrete by the time you read this sentence. Then in a day it would be the size of China’s 3 gorges dams. Concrete is used for almost every building around the world in which the slabs protect us from the elements from outside to help keep us warm. One of the bad parts about concrete is that it loves to suck in water which is bad for places that are in a drought. It’s thirsty and is the 10th of the worlds industrial water use. In cities, concrete also adds to the heat-island effect which absorbs the warmth of the sun and it also traps the car exhausts. Last I want to talk about is that concrete destroys natural infrastructure without replacing ecological functions that we humans need such as fertilization, pollination, oxygen production and flood control. Should they find a new health substance or should they stick with concrete?
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/feb/25/concrete-the-most-destructive-material-on-earth
While I see the point of this post what is a solution to concrete as a building material
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ReplyDeleteThis is a good topic that you picked and taked about I know a litte bit about concrete because of my dad works on bridges but concrete can be very scary at times.
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