Why Environmentalists Will Never be Taken Seriously
Ban Building Demolitions? WTF, are they serious? Sadly yes.
And this only proves my point that TreeHuggers will not be accepted. They keep jumping on ideas such as this one without thinking first. It’s a poor idea, if you need to know why click on the link and read the first comment and my comment after reading the post.
Environmentalists, TreeHuggers, whatever you want to call yourself, please start thinking through these issues before you jump on them. It actually does harm to take issues like “banning building demolitions”, because suddenly people like me get put into that a category with the ones jumping on board and suddenly all environmentalists have no logic and believe in the ridiculous.
I would much rather see environmentalists actually supporting the sciences and trying to further important causes like global warming. Rather than jumping on board with some lunatics’ idea.
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August 21st, 2007 at 5:44 pm
Treehugger actually has a point about the energy cost of building materials. All that is necessary is to start charging for energy what it really costs in terms of cost to the environmental commons - a tricky calculation to be sure. This will make the price of bricks skyrocket and recycling will blossom.
The price of copper has gone up due to scarcity and now I notice that copper pipes are carefully removed from buildings before they are torn down.
I have a hunch that as the climate warms, the Formosan termite will reduce the popularity of wood construction in the Northern states. Steel construction is stronger (though a little bit more expensive), recyclable, and as far as I know, Formosan termites can’t eat it.
The builder made an excellent point about the energy savings of a modern home.
August 21st, 2007 at 5:58 pm
They have a point on conservation and recycling, but supporting a ban on building demolitions is just pointless. Which is why they instead should just focus on the idea of recycling building materials.
While it sucks to see buildings knocked down, it probably uses just as much resources to rebuild as it does to fix up a dilapidated building, as the first commentor stated.
Interesting you bring this up. In my grad class last night a student mentioned how in his home land of Haiti they use more steel and concrete in buildings because of termites.
I imagine in the next 20 years or so, insects will shape many different things we do.