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Over their 40+ years lifetime it becomes negligible.


Maybe? Because climate change is a self-feeding cycle, releasing large amounts of CO2 early, then amortizing that over decades of operation, is worse than a constant steady release.

I guess you're probably right, nonetheless. It just annoys me when people post polls like this to prove that people in general are stupid, when polls generally show that ordinary people everywhere are way better on climate issues than political elites.


Concrete absorbs CO2 as it cures. If you add a bit of titanium dioxide it doubles the amount of absorbed CO2.




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