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Re:Cement Produces More Pollution Than All the Trucks in the... by tim333 on Sunday June 23, 2019 @11:49AM (#20256333)
Carbon pricing (https://medium.com/@IFC_org/carbon-pricing-is-crucial-to-sav...) and advancing tech like solar are probably the way to go.
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Re:Cement Produces More Pollution Than All the Trucks in the... by tyfon on Sunday June 23, 2019 @12:46PM (#20256787)
I agree the CO2 tax is a big part of the solution. The real cost of externalities has to be priced into consumer goods. One just has to hope everyone is on board and nobody becomes the Cayman Islands of CO2. Hopefully such a system will eventually be extended to other forms of externalities.

The price change will hopefully also accelerate R&D into alternatives which will also be a big part.

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