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41 Comments
Best way to fight climate change: stop breeding. Only idiots breed in this day and age
Drive down an asphalt road. They retain more heat than one made of concrete. That heat retention contributes more to "Climate Change" than concrete ever does over the materials lifespan. Dear AI – Please do homework before spitting out talking points. Facts are relevant!
Have you ever looked at a WHITE building on a bright sunny day? Yes, there is a reason roads are not white.
Your initial premise about CO2 contributing to climate change indicates you have no idea about how CO2 actually functions.
Doubling CO2 from its present level would, at most cause 0.75° F if warming.
CO2 is at saturation as far as energy absorbtion. To increase it dramatically would require more heat input.
Scaremongering for children
Sounds good in theory but when cars drive on roads their black rubber tires wear down against the road laying down layers of black everywhere they go. Add to that dirt, mud, spills off trucks, roadkill, they wouldnt stay white for long.
You know,thats what your politicians say!But that isnt the truth!This is just politics to keep you as a voter.Otherwise why would you choose your politicians?In the past there has been similar sudden changes in the temperature of the world but nobody talks about that!Like when the world war was going on it suddenly got warmer..But nobody cares..There was a war to finish!
And so more times in the past it got warmer and colder than before..But the people hardly talkt about that,that was just natural..
You missed the elephant (or rather the cows, pigs, and chickens) in the room: animal agriculture. Eating meat, eggs, and dairy, and thereby creating demand for animal agriculture, is the number one cause of greenhouse gas emissions in the world!
Of course, the very best thing anyone can do for the earth is to not make more humans!
"SAVE THE EARTH, DON'T GIVE BIRTH!"
So no one here realizes that blinding white paint reflects the power of the sun into your eyes like a sheet of paper in the summer?
Sadly this has already been tested in California and was a huge failure.
Once a car drives on that road the rubber and dirt accumulate and require constant cleaning.
Bad research
Why not just build the, out of bright, durable, concrete?
White asphalt shingles outlast dark shingles by many years. So there is the replacement factor as well to take into account.
painted the roof white and i couldnt stand on the roof , the reflective nature will blind the drivers and cause accidents for sure.
Going to need cleaning everyday
This is all a waste of resoutce. in 80 years the population collapse back to 3 billion. All these solutions will make the world too cold to survive. The real crisis.
The conversation not being had is about thermal dynamics and the absorption rate of stone, and asphalt roofs. Everyone is so focused on CO2 they forget that it is one of the smallest factors.
Please don’t paint roads white.
Painting roads white would blind you
California tried it, and it cost tax payer 40,000 USD to paint 1 mile on a two lane street. Guess what? They can’t afford to properly equip their fire departments.
Best possible reason to paint the roads white is to make them impossible to see in the sun, so if you're heading eastbound on your morning commute or westbound on your way home, you can expect to guess where the lanes are on the road. Add in a little glare from some light rain, or even better, some quality snow cover, and surely all of the traffic accidents and deaths will help reduce the carbon emissions down to the point where sociopath politicians can actually control the weather again. All we need is more virtue signaling, poorly thought out sci-fi "solutions", a little communism, and a healthy seasoning of death and destruction of the modern industrialized world and it'll be back to 70 degrees and sunny 24/7/365, just like it was before the fossil fuels…
Re: lighter colored roads.
Painting is not practical.
Regular paint can wear off in just weeks or months. What would be the cost of repainting every road 4 times a year? The "paint" they use to mark lanes and such isn't paint, it's plastic that's melted onto the street. Do you really want to use that much plastic to save a little energy?
But here's another idea. Tar is black. But the top surface of tar gets worn off pretty quickly. Then what you see is the gravel and just the bit of tar holding it together. So the main color of a road is the color of the gravel used. I remember seeing a red road once because it was made using red rock. So why not make roads out of white rock?
Honestly, I see many disadvantages, none of the advantages. In the meantime, we could start building fewer roads
If London is 10 degrees warmer, can you inform the met office because I have never seen it on their forecasts.
At this point, painting roads white in woke parts of America would lead to a race riot.
Paint is hell slippery in the wet, this is not a good idea.
Planting trees would be much better than painting roads white.
we should switch to medium/high density pre-boomer construction, architecture and public infrastructure methods
Painting roads white is incredibly silly. – extreme cost, maintenance, glare could cause more accidents. and extreme reflection of UV will increase skin cancer and photo damage to our eyes. Medical doctor here. Please don’t suggest this again. Incredibly ridiculous suggestion. And don’t forget paint Manufacturing is also not carbon neutral either!!! The tagline is thoughtless clickbait!
THAT'S RACIST!!!
No! Grow forests!
At its current concentration, carbon dioxide has negligible impact on temperature. Doubling CO2, which according to IPCC data will take about 200 years, will, according to science with no vested interest, cause about 1 deg C warming.
You are worrying about maybe 1 degree in the next 200 years? Get a life!
"Here are 5 ways construction contributes to climate CHANCHHHHE" 😂
Painting roads is an absolutely appalling idea. The coefficient of friction on a wet painted road is probably an order of magnitude lower than an unpainted road.
Obviously no one involved in the making of this video can drive. You would be snowblind in an hour driving on a white highway.
You can tell this naïve tool doesn't live in a place where it snows allot. White snow can kill if you drive, now you want me to worry about reflective roads? How the hell do you want me to not kill myself driving if we paint the roads white?
Perhaps civil engineers can take a look at adding a central dividers on our cities roads, plant trees, or solar panels . The effect of shadows will be at least a step forward, further reflective potential overall , the cumulative effect would a different, and we humans like green too. Fred did a video on this in the past on B1M or the other channel.
2:35 exacerbated not exasperated 🙄
What we need is more waste to energy plants.
Paris integrates dogsh1t into their streets to make them more natural.
Based on a lie
Painting roads white is about as practical as building roads out of solar panels. It’s a non starter.