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[–] Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Seriously, there's a reason we don't "build like the Romans". We would be using 10x the concrete that we use now. We can't even keep up with concrete demand now, I can't even imagine how much worse the environment would already be if we needed 10x the concrete.

[–] PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

If we needed 10x the concrete, we wouldn't have built so many cheap ugly concrete buildings.

[–] Eric@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 18 hours ago

Yes I've been to the Pantheon and those walls are thicc