In Response to The Guardian’s Concrete Week
Over 6 days, during what they called Concrete Week Get Your First SmartRock Concrete Sensor for FREE Free Demo Kit , The Guardian published on its website more than 10 different articles ranging from “Concrete: the most destructive material on earth” to “Delicate sense of terror: what does concrete do to our mental health?” Concrete is blamed for flooding, urbanization, respiratory diseases, depression, and government corruption. In contrast, in the next paragraph, they note that concrete is literally the foundation of modern civilization and that there is no substitute. So which is true?Even the most ardent proponent of concrete would admit that there is an environmental cost to manufacturing and building with concrete. Large holes are dug in the earth to extract the raw materials—limestone, sand, gravel. Carbon dioxide is emitted making cement. Many of our concrete structures don’t prove…
