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Whats wrong with house plants?

• qbasic_forever 6y ago
  Real problem: people growing invasive species like bamboo that escape and over time destroy local plant ecosystems (see all the kudzu in the south of America as another example). Silly problem just to show how silly the OP's argument is: putting a plant indoors now means it costs carbon to keep it living--I have to water it, but that water doesn't come for free and depends on a vast pipeline of industrialization to extract water, pump it to my home, and then build containers for me to hold the water and drip it on my indoor plants. It would be better to just cut that chain entirely and let plants get water from rain directly... by not being indoor houseplants.
  • SilverRed 6y ago
    So there is no real issue with houseplants that couldn't be made for literally anything people do or own. Even if we banned all house plants, I doubt it would have any improvement on the environment. I wouldn't be surprised if it makes things even worse as people use synthetic decorations to replace their house plants. Tbh I'm kind of sick of every thread about the environment being filled with comments about completely insignificant things while the obvious and massive improvements are sitting in front of our faces. If most countries implemented a carbon tax and did literally nothing else, it would be a monumental improvement. When tested in Australia, it was economically and environmentally a massive success. It was just destroyed politically by newscorp.