Saskia Sassen and Cement Building

Saskia Sassen
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Saskia Sassen
One of the learnings I walked away with from the talk is on how cement building is destroying our environment and ecosystem. For the last two decades, experts have been talking about climate change and how pollution has been the biggest contributor. Most people now know that driving vehicles that produce high carbon emissions lead to them contributing to a change in the climate. Also, people are now aware that the introduction of new factories and plants in their areas only serves to contribute to poor climate due to their intense carbon emissions. Therefore, it was a key take away for me when I learned that cement building is what’s destroying our environment. And this is true since the factories and plants are built using cement. Also, as we expand our roads, build more houses, we tend to clear more of the world’s green space and water bodie...