We can lower carbon emissions while still using steel, but it would require factoring in sequestering equivalent CO2 or switching to renewable in the price of steel.
Obviously, this would dramatically increase the price of steel but this would now be more realistic price after accounting for how damaging it is to the environment and how costly it is to make that steel carbon neutral.
Or another point of view, the current price of steel is extremely cheap because people who benefit from it do not have to pay for the environmental cost of it.
Obviously, this would dramatically increase the price of steel but this would now be more realistic price after accounting for how damaging it is to the environment and how costly it is to make that steel carbon neutral.
Or another point of view, the current price of steel is extremely cheap because people who benefit from it do not have to pay for the environmental cost of it.