New United Nations Report Signals Need for Mud and Grass Huts by 2050

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It’s all a big ‘conspiracy theory’ that by 2050 we shall be living in mud and grass huts, eating a meat-free diet and giving up most forms of personal transport. Maybe we might not believe it if global elites stopped writing copious reports detailing all these lifestyle changes, which are said to be needed to move to Net Zero. The latest such report comes from the United Nations, which sets out a collectivist global vision of primary building materials consisting of mud bricks, bamboo and forest “detritus”.

 

According to the UN, the world needs to move to “regenerative material practices” using “ethically produced” low carbon earth and bio-based building materials. Examples include mud bricks, timber, bamboo and agricultural and forest detritus. The report harks back to the middle of the last century when the vast majority of cultures built large buildings and cities out of indigenous earthen, stone and bio-based materials, including timber, cane, thatch and bamboo. Contrasting modern concrete, steel and glass buildings, it observes that “massive mud buildings have been maintained for centuries with their structures intact”.

 

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/10/11/new-united-nations-report-signals-need-for-mud-and-grass-huts-by-2050/

 

The actual report (15MB download)

Building Materials And The Climate.pdf

 

Build yourself a mud hut earthbag dome. Could be a use for all those used sand-bags after the flooding recedes. 

https://earthbagbuilding.com/articles/riceland.htm

 

 

[thaibeachlovers]

Mud was and is an acceptable building material, but not for skyscrapers.

I used to live in a house made with earthen walls, no different from a normal house except the walls were 3 feet thick.

 

Outside Riyadh there is an historical city made entirely from mud.

 

Grass roofs are also acceptable.

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To start with, while the headline of the article trumpets "mud and grass huts" there actually is no mention of them in the UN report. Which was to be expected considering that this came from wattsupwiththat.com, one of the leading online sources of human-caused climate change denialism.

Edited October 21, 2023 by placeholder