Concrete pours into the world at a rate of 150 tons per second. You can't make concerte without cement, whose production emits nearly three times more CO2 than aviation. You can't make concrete without sand, the second motst exploited natural resource after water in terms of extration volume. Building with concrete strips fertile land bare, a death sentence for biodiversity, devouring farmland in its wake. Concrete is in fact a weapon of mass destruction against life itself.
Amid growing opposition to environmentally destructive construction projets, this book uncovers how industry and state collude at our peril. It exposes our patriarchal concrete system while asking, "What if we built differently? What if we lived differently?" If we took care of what is already thre, repairing and bringing ethical, social, and political concerns back into the way we design and build. If we lived differently. If we took a stand against concrete and reclaimed the world it has devoured.