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What an idiotic comment. Lawns are stupid? What about the roads you drive along daily? Or the car parks you park in? Or the gigantic concrete buildings you work
by jonny383 6y ago
What an idiotic comment. Lawns are stupid? What about the roads you drive along daily? Or the car parks you park in? Or the gigantic concrete buildings you work in?
Lawns are very obviously the least of society's concerns.
- BlargMcLarg 6y agoThere are quite a few people claiming the opposite, actually. Large squares of regularly trimmed, flat grass only to show one's decadence isn't exactly the same as a road used daily. If they were at least used for playing children, that would be one thing, but most front lawns are large spaces not designed for any purpose beyond aesthetics, and many back lawns have similar structures. It is almost devoid of life thanks to the lack of protection from the sun combined with the lack of diversity in vegetation, just so someone can show off their property.
- TheGrassyKnoll 6y agoThen I'll add to the idiocy. I think fake lawns are stupid. (/opinion)
- killtimeatwork 6y agoLawns are a big waste of potential. What could be a thriving ecosystem is basically an eco-wasteland. I would not be surprised if they were originally popular with aristocracy precisely because how stupid and useless they were (a Veblen good, signaling that the owner is rich enough to afford such stupidity).
- CalRobert 6y agoHonestly, those things are pretty stupid too. Car dependency, enabled through incorrectly priced roads that don't account for externalities, is one of the greatest drivers of climate collapse, and production of cement to make concrete is one of the largest sources of CO2 emissions.
- eggsmediumrare 6y agoThose are all bad too. It's idiotic to think this makes lawns less of a problem.