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Re:Ask HN: Is it a bad idea to join Facebook as engineer? by leesec on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @09:11PM (#26097451)
Linking 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.
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Re:Ask HN: Is it a bad idea to join Facebook as engineer? by piva00 on Thursday February 11, 2021 @05:29AM (#26100060)
Cement 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

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Re:Ask HN: Is it a bad idea to join Facebook as engineer? by obscoth on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @09:31PM (#26097556)
Cement releases a shitload of CO2. In what world is that a vague link? It’s literally the definition of the issue.
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