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Lawn maintenance is extremely expensive, and toxic, and polluting. Used to live in suburbia proper, and I used to have the worst lawn, my neighbors hated me,
by SMAAART 6y ago
Lawn maintenance is extremely expensive, and toxic, and polluting. Used to live in suburbia proper, and I used to have the worst lawn, my neighbors hated me, but I DGAF.
There's nothing green about green lawns.
- some-guy 6y agoWhen I rented a single family dwelling in the Central Valley in CA, I simply let the weeds / grass mixture take over while using a push-reel mower to keep it as a lawn, then let the lawn die during the summer and fall. Virtually no noise, no pollution, and even a brown lawn after being well kept didn't look terrible.
- notacoward 6y agoThe really crazy thing is that in many places you are required to maintain your lawn in something like the traditional manner. Not just in crazy Southern states, either. In my own town in Massachusetts, I remember a controversy about someone letting their lawn revert to a proper meadow, neighbors complaining that it harbored pests which destroyed their lawns, etc. It was crazy and hypocritical, but also exemplary of a common reality across the US.
- asdff 6y agoWater use from watering your lawn is pretty insignificant when put up against other aspects of daily American life, or things like industry. I hate this sort of consumer side rhetoric for climate change. Change all the lawns in America to gravel you want, ban all the straws, none of that will make an impact when the biggest impact by a mile is from industry protected by a profitable regulatory environment their own lobbyists have designed. Better to go straight for the jugular when you need to kill Goliath than to try hitting him with a Nerf Dart.