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Those other things have a mainly personal cost, lawns have large negative externalities. Especially the people who regularly have their lawn sprayed with pestic
by ericd 4y ago
Those other things have a mainly personal cost, lawns have large negative externalities. Especially the people who regularly have their lawn sprayed with pesticide/herbicide. Never fun getting caught in a downwind cloud of that stuff on a walk through the neighborhood.
- culi 4y agoNot to mention it's the most common crop humans grow and we don't even eat it. They're basically green deserts with the amount of pesticides it takes to maintain them and they're an incredible waste of water
- nkrisc 4y agoThose things all have massive external costs. How much energy goes towards powering computers and other devices playing games? How much time, effort and money goes towards developing them? How much power is used to power the offices where the games are produced? All that candy needs to be manufactured and transported, and then the waste of the packaging handled, all for essentially zero nutritional benefit compared to other food options. We should perhaps ban everything that isn't strictly essential for life.