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Material World - Ep149: Ed Conway

Cleaning Up: Leadership in an Age of Climate Change

CHAPTER

The Importance of Steel in Modern Society

This chapter discusses the significance of steel in infrastructure and daily life, highlighting the amount of steel that people are unaware of in buildings, railways, and airports. It compares the steel consumption per person in developed countries to that in the global south and explores the concept of the iron age still existing today. The chapter also addresses the challenge of achieving net zero carbon emissions in the steel industry.

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