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Making cheap, flimsy stuff that you trash (or worse, abandon) and rebuild every few years is very wasteful of resources and terrible for the environment though.
by hermitcrab 4y ago
Making cheap, flimsy stuff that you trash (or worse, abandon) and rebuild every few years is very wasteful of resources and terrible for the environment though.
- seoaeu 4y agoUsing buildings constructed before the invention of modern insulation is terrible for the environment too.
- tener 4y agoYou can totally insulate old buildings. Not super cheap, but cheaper than heating, perfectly doable.
- seoaeu 4y agoSure, in many cases that's the right thing to do. From the outside, however, major retrofits like that are going to look a lot like the construction that the article is taking about
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y agoBroadly, I agree. But the specifics depend on ... well, the specifics. If 20 years go by and there's new building techniques/materials that drastically reduce the energy utilization of a building, it's not unimaginable that it may be less wasteful to tear it down. I would agree that this doesn't happen very often for something at least moderately well built; for the not-very-well built, I am not so sure.