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Building Our Zero-Emissions Future

TED Radio Hour

CHAPTER

The Country of Concrete Is Such a Big Polluter

Concrete is the second most used substance on earth, after water. It contributes to about eight per cent of man made co- omissions. If it were a country, it would third for emissions, after china and u s a. But concrete is an intrinsically low impact material with much lower emissions of c o two and energy per ton than other materials like iron and steel....

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