[Greenbuilding] Staggering 1/2 tonne per person per year cement production!

[Antonioli Dan]

There are plenty of steady-state economic economists out there but our linear growth system doesn’t operate on that premise. All the green buildings in the world won’t save us from the inevitable limits we’re already up against. 

Dan



On Apr 19, 2015, at 8:28 AM, sanjay jain <sanjayjainuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> > can ( & will!!) add up to tipping the scales, if we just
> > keep at it for the next few centuries.
>  
> Even under the most optimistic climate models we don't have 1 century let alone a few.  Technology is neither the problem or the solution to our current woes. Economics and culture are.
> 
> I recently attended Brooking's "Achieving strong economic growth"  there were a lot of smart people, not one asked why we need perpetual economic growth. The underlying assumption is that we need more and more goods and services to be happy.
> 
> We keep innovating to produce more and more food, saying that the poor are hungry, but there are now more obese people on the planet than hungry ones. The issue is distribution. Not to mention that 65 billion (10 billion in the US) land animals are tortured in factory farms each year... 35% water use in California is for animal agriculture.
> 
> I encourage folks on this list to promote "think green" as well as "buy green". 
> 
> ~sanjay
> 
> 
> 
> From: Frank Tettemer <frank at livingsol.com>
> To: Greenbuilding at bioenergylists.org 
> Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 4:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] Staggering 1/2 tonne per person per year cement production!
> 
> Getting back to the cement, it is simply staggering. It makes our 
> individual efforts seem pointless.
> 
> /Could someone tell me who I need to contact to get my 1/2 tonne of 
> cement?  :)/
> 
> ~sanjay
> 
> I don't know, either san jay, to whom we must request, in order to 
> receive our own half ton.
> 
> But I do know that the efforts are, and have been, point-full. These 
> steady small developments,( in lightening the load on the Planet, in 
> attempting the Living Building Challenge, in becoming responsible for 
> your own energy production, repair, and consumption, ) can ( & will!!) 
> add up to tipping the scales, if we just keep at it for the next few 
> centuries.
> 
> Think back, how 20-30 years ago, solar energy had such a lethargy of 
> marketing and slow sales, and high expense.  Yet now, the accumulated 
> efforts, of proponents of solar energy as a viable alternative, are now 
> being viewed as credible. Many people have kept at it, year after year, 
> until the scales have been tipped, and we'll get to see more and more 
> villages becoming electrically self sufficient, like in Europe.
> 
> I just really would like to view all our green building, natural 
> building, efforts as that of the-glass-half-full;
> quite point-full, well developed thinking, over the past three decades, 
> and frankly, quite expectant of positive changes,;
> rather than to consider our efforts as the-glass-half-empty, as being 
> point-less.
> 
> Opti-Mist-Me,
> 
> -- 
> Frank Tettemer
> Living Sol ~ Building and Design
> www.livingsol.com
> 613 756 3884
> 
> 
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