Concrete

 

(Source: The Guardian)

 

 

Our blue and green world's turning greyer

Every second we lay concrete down

After water, this concrete we're laying

Is the most widely used substance around

 

PostScript

 

Concrete is the most destructive material on Earth.

While concrete is how we try to tame nature,

it also entombs vast tracts of fertile soil.

Desensitising us from what is happening

outside our urban fortress

 

If the cement industry were a country,

it would be the third largest carbon dioxide emitter in

the world, surpassed only by China and the US.

 

Don Matthews February 2020