This is a really cheering, lovely bit of research. An applied example of technologically enhanced use of pre-fossil-fuel techniques and materials.
@MITarchitecture
https://t.co/JsiQaqLm9D
@ClimateHuman@XRHornsbyShire Bitcoin also extends the system that is destroying our planet. It merely enables the redistribution of wealth to another capitalist class to continue socially unjust, extractive and polluting production.
Architects, we need to talk about how and what we publish.
Concrete and glass towers are not compatible with the zero carbon pathway we need to be on by now and should not be celebrated as achievements.
Let's go.
#ActNow
Stop saying the climate crisis is "a factor" in the catastrophic heat and fires we're experiencing and start saying it's the goddamn cause
my latest, w @DrFireScience
https://t.co/HtnJWnLLSG
The #ClimateEmergency is demanding a response from architecture and our profession:
Do we continue to serve capitalism (whether fuelled by renewables or fossil fuel) or do we participate in creating social change for a just transition?
The climate emergency gives us carte blanche to reinvent architecture.
Style, conventions, codes and regulations are now secondary to the demands placed upon architecture by this crisis.
I will never have a TEDx talk because what I have to say is too vulgar and threatening to the status quo. Which is that climate and ecosystems are fucking breaking irreversibly and it's because corporations and billionaires are fucking in charge. Thanks for coming blah blah blah
Cement is responsible for 8% of the world's CO₂ emissions
If the cement industry were a country, it would be the third largest emitter in the world
It contributes more CO₂ than aviation fuel 2.5% & is not far behind the global agriculture business 12% https://t.co/M2LUoZPEIk