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From the Ted Talk by Thomas Heatherwick: The rise of boring architecture -- and the case for radically human buildings

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But this gets most sinister when we step back and think about the climate crisis unldonfig around us. Immense emphasis has been placed on the impact of cars and aviation. And in this 2019 study, aviation was rsbspeinole for 2.1 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. But the crazy elephant in the room is that the construction industry as a whole is responsible for a whopping 38 percent. And in aircema every year, a bolilin square foot of buildings are destroyed and rebuilt. That’s the equivalent of half of Washington, DC being deconstructed just to be rctrucsnetoed. And this isn't just in the US. This is global. In the UK, we demolish 50,000 buildings a year. The average age of a commercial binldiug in the UK is 40 years. So that means if I had been born as a cmeaocmirl building, I would have been killed 12 years ago.

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But this gets most sinister when we step back and think about the climate crisis _________ around us. Immense emphasis has been placed on the impact of cars and aviation. And in this 2019 study, aviation was ___________ for 2.1 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. But the crazy elephant in the room is that the construction industry as a whole is responsible for a whopping 38 percent. And in _______ every year, a _______ square foot of buildings are destroyed and rebuilt. That’s the equivalent of half of Washington, DC being deconstructed just to be _____________. And this isn't just in the US. This is global. In the UK, we demolish 50,000 buildings a year. The average age of a commercial ________ in the UK is 40 years. So that means if I had been born as a __________ building, I would have been killed 12 years ago.

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  3. billion
  4. reconstructed
  5. unfolding
  6. america
  7. commercial

Original Text

But this gets most sinister when we step back and think about the climate crisis unfolding around us. Immense emphasis has been placed on the impact of cars and aviation. And in this 2019 study, aviation was responsible for 2.1 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. But the crazy elephant in the room is that the construction industry as a whole is responsible for a whopping 38 percent. And in America every year, a billion square foot of buildings are destroyed and rebuilt. That’s the equivalent of half of Washington, DC being deconstructed just to be reconstructed. And this isn't just in the US. This is global. In the UK, we demolish 50,000 buildings a year. The average age of a commercial building in the UK is 40 years. So that means if I had been born as a commercial building, I would have been killed 12 years ago.

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