So, The Guardian runs a series for a week telling us all that concrete is the Very Devil. And now they run a page of responses. One of which is simply a tweet from someone picking up my own piece telling The Guardian they’re all wet.
Too bad science & facts take a back seat to opinion in this @jonathanwatts #TheGuardian #Concrete story https://t.co/bMyFX4PeTp. Decisions about making communities more sustainable should be evidence based. Facts show Concrete is part of the solution to fight #climatechange
— Michael McSweeney (@McSweeneyCAC) February 26, 2019
“Concrete Screed”. Outstanding, Tim.
Ah, yes, only just spotted that as you mention it. Entirely subconscious otherwise….
Wait until they’ve managed to get concrete banned & they start on bricks. They won’t be happy until all construction is wattle & daub.
Incidentally, this made me laugh:
“less than 1% of concrete in Brazil is reused, for example.”
That’s a bug, not a feature. If they had crushed concrete available for aggregate, they’d be using it. There’s simply not enough demolition going on in Brazil to produce much. Because they’re still building the fucking place.
Neolithic . . . it’s the way to go!
There’ll be no daub* allowed in the Giradanu Vegan Utopia, BiS.
* contains cowshit, and often horsehair
Is this the same Guardian which regularly tells us that not enough houses are being built in the UK?
What are they advocating – houses made of wood?
@Sam
Nooooo. That wood mean killing trees
Caves are their solution
Clean water saves lives. But clean piped water means using plastic. Nooo!!!! Evulll!!!! We must ban the global roll-out of clean piped water as plastic kills!!!!
And copper is even worse!!!!
I looked up their HQ on duh web. Looks like plenty o’ concrete in their building.
@jgh
No need to worry about using that evil plastic for drinking water supplies: do what the Romans did: use lead.
Completely natural substance, no man-made additives. Very Guardian.
And as an extra bonus for the Guardian: it generates a new generation of their readers. 🙂