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My 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
by 300bps 7y ago
My 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.