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should someone who works on a cement tugboat have to believe they are building a better world. or can they just do their job?
by leesec 6y ago
should someone who works on a cement tugboat have to believe they are building a better world. or can they just do their job?
- piva00 6y agoThey can just have a job. Now if you work on the tobacco industry, knowing full well the bad side-effects of tobacco consumption and keep working on it then you don't have any morals.
- leesec 6y agoLinking cement production to global warming issues is at least as strong a connection and similar scale as linking Facebook to whatever bad thing you think they're doing, which is to say, a very vague one.
- obscoth 6y agoCement releases a shitload of CO2. In what world is that a vague link? It’s literally the definition of the issue.
- piva00 6y agoCement production is not a vague link to climate change. [0] > In 2016, world cement production generated around 2.2 billion tonnes of CO2 - equivalent to 8% of the global total. More than half of that came from the calcination process. [0] https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46455844 https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46455844