Reply to post: Re: "Companies not responding to our pressure!"

Corporate investments are a massive hidden source of carbon emissions

DS999 Silver badge

Re: "Companies not responding to our pressure!"

You're falling victim to the "if you aren't solving all the problems you aren't solving any of the problems" fallacy. A single organization can specialize in certain aspects of the problem, and leave those other problems to someone else.

There was just news a couple weeks ago about a couple guys who invented a carbon negative method for making ordinary portland cement (the waste products of their process soak up more CO2 than is emitted in the energy consuming stages, and can even later be used as aggregate for concrete) which is also less expensive than the current standard. If they aren't the Theranos of the cement world and their method scales, it will be a game changer for CO2 emissions from construction activities.

Would you tell them they are totally ignoring transportation like oil powered ships, trains and trucks, and home heating in northern climates? Because they are, no matter how much they reduce emissions in cement production they aren't making container ships even a tiny bit more efficient, those bastards!

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