<story><title>Building future cities out of timber could save 100B tons of CO2 emissions</title><url>https://singularityhub.com/2022/09/05/building-future-cities-out-of-timber-could-save-100-billion-tons-of-co2-emissions/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>credit_guy</author><text>For context, humanity produces about 50 billion tons of CO2 emissions per year. This estimate of 100 billion tons is between now and 2100, so about 1.2 billion tons per year savings. That&amp;#x27;s not nothing, but it&amp;#x27;s not that impressive either. And if it turns out the assumptions in the estimate are a bit optimistic, then it becomes more or less a rounding error.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nextaccountic</author><text>&amp;gt; That&amp;#x27;s not nothing, but it&amp;#x27;s not that impressive either.&lt;p&gt;Almost all initiatives fighting carbon emissions are on the low % percentages. That&amp;#x27;s just the nature of the problem.&lt;p&gt;If humanity wants to stand a chance, we need to catch ALL the low hanging fruits</text></comment>
<story><title>Building future cities out of timber could save 100B tons of CO2 emissions</title><url>https://singularityhub.com/2022/09/05/building-future-cities-out-of-timber-could-save-100-billion-tons-of-co2-emissions/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>credit_guy</author><text>For context, humanity produces about 50 billion tons of CO2 emissions per year. This estimate of 100 billion tons is between now and 2100, so about 1.2 billion tons per year savings. That&amp;#x27;s not nothing, but it&amp;#x27;s not that impressive either. And if it turns out the assumptions in the estimate are a bit optimistic, then it becomes more or less a rounding error.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ido</author><text>2.4% savings in emissions is massive. It obviously not on its own the only measure we need to take.</text></comment>