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Concrete’s cobra effect: unintended results of embodied carbon reduction

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Recent efforts in North America to reduce embodied carbon in concrete are similar to British solutions to eradicate cobras in colonial India. The story goes that once upon a time in colonial India, British government officials were tasked with reducing the population of the venomous cobra.