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Nature is just starting to tell us that our way of life isn't sustainable. There are more sustainable ways to live, we just have to be open to discussing them.
by 300bps 7y ago
Nature is just starting to tell us that our way of life isn't sustainable.
There are more sustainable ways to live, we just have to be open to discussing them. You want a lawn - how often do your children play on it? An hour per day? That means your lawn is unused 96% of the time.
How about we redesign our living spaces so we have one large common lawn that many residences can share. Kids will be more encouraged to play outside and play together. And we can put markets within walking distance of these residences, and movie theaters and other stores.
Suddenly our children are more social, we're getting more exercise, driving less, not having insect-killing monospecies lawns that aren't used 96% of the time and many other benefits.
There are solutions to this but if we put our fingers in our ears and say we want things how they've been for the last 60 years then we are no smarter than the cyanobacteria that converted so much carbon dioxide to oxygen that they suffocated themselves 2.5 billion years ago.
- duxup 7y agoWhile I appreciate your general design point. My neighborhood probabbly isn't going to be reconfigured anytime soon... so that really didn't change anything.
- 300bps 7y agoMy neighborhood probabbly isn't going to be reconfigured anytime soon The problem is new neighborhoods are being put up literally every day across the country and we are cookie-cutting them out the same way we've done since the 1940s because everyone has the same attitude you've exhibited of "Don't care, want my lawn."
- duxup 7y ago>everyone has the same attitude you've exhibited of "Don't care, want my lawn." I mean here I am reading the article and obviously interested, I talk about the practical impact of what it would mean to change existing lawns, the fact that I leave a bunch of my lawn wild, and you basically ignore that and boil down my point of view into something it isn't. It's not surprising we have such a divides about such issues.
- jf22 7y agoSaying "I don't want to take away the lawn from my kids" is saying "Don't care, want my lawn."
- duxup 7y agoCall me crazy but I think those are very different statements. And that's just leaving out everything else I wrote about how much I care.
- jf22 7y agoThey are different statements that convey the same message. It strikes me as curious to say your children running around your lawn is a reason to keep it, but you must realize your children will experience a vastly different quality of life from climate change and/or the loss of pollinators.
- duxup 7y agoNot everything about humanity is so absolute. I like giving my kids a place to play in the yard. I can express that desire and still be concerned about climate change / do things about that.