I never understood that energy-efficient argument. If it’s a new building with an entirely new use-case, sure, but demolishing/replacing one building for the sake of building an entirely new ‘energy-efficient’ building just never made sense to me. The energy/resources spent building it greatly outweighs any potential energy-savings.
Most people won’t believe this because as a society we’ve been conditioned to at this point, but…this whole carbon tax/climate change industry is one of the biggest lies we’ve ever been sold, and by the time most American’s realize that these types of policies (Paris Agreement) make no sense and are speeding up the (already-rapid) destruction of our economy, it’ll probably be too late to dig ourselves out of the hole that we’re currently creating.