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This is about in line with the intelligence with which I see people pursuing their interactions with the natural world around us. “A bare patch of dirt?? Let’s
by code_duck 8y ago
This is about in line with the intelligence with which I see people pursuing their interactions with the natural world around us.
“A bare patch of dirt?? Let’s pay someone to spray it with Round-Up! On all of our 480 locations”
- sokoloff 8y agoThough I agree with the end effect, the reality is closer to “let’s pay a landscape company to take care of this thing that isn’t our core business” (perfectly rational) and then the landscape company figures out the most cost-effective way to accomplish that. If that lens is correct, asking people to forego landscape services isn’t the right response, but rather to better educate and/or regulate landscaping services and their chemical use.
- code_duck 8y agoThe choice of landscaping materials and chemicals is ultimately up to the customer. Ideally, people would be aware and care that a landscaping company is needlessly pouring poison all over their property. The best plan would be to design spaces that don’t ‘need’ weedkiller or leaf blowing.
- sokoloff 8y agoAnyone with 480 locations probably isn't making detailed selections on chemicals used by their landscaping contractors.
- code_duck 8y agoYes, that is basically the problem
- cma 8y ago> The choice of landscaping materials and chemicals is ultimately up to the customer. Not true, there are all kinds of regulations. You can't use DDT for insects in basic landscaping, for example. If it had been heavily used in landscaping (not sure it made sense), the solution to DDT's toxic effects wouldn't have been to educate individuals. When there are big negative externalities, the government usually needs to step in.
- paulcole 8y agoIt’s no dumber than let’s pay someone to dig up rare rocks, ship them halfway around the world, turn them into iPhones, and ship them back. Then let’s do that nonstop for 10 years and counting.
- erikpukinskis 8y agoIt’s a little dumber
- code_duck 8y agoKilling weeds with poison serves only a questionable aesthetic purpose.
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