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Everywhere should be getting rid of grass that's only there for looks.
by bluefirebrand 3y ago
Everywhere should be getting rid of grass that's only there for looks.
- polski-g 3y agoIt converts CO2 to O2. It lowers temperature compared to pavement. It's quite useful.
- bbu 3y agoNative plants do that just as well, if not better though.
- cute_boi 3y agoBut, water is way more important than the points you have raised. Maybe if grass can't grow on its own, then we should not intervene nature that much?
- stahtops 3y agoGreat point. We should shut down all markets and grocery stores as well- if people can’t survive on their own, we shouldn’t be supporting that, it’s unnatural.
- bluefirebrand 3y agoPeople having food to eat and people having green lawns aren't even remotely equivalent dude, come on. Literally the whole point of "we should use less water on lawns" is so we'll have more water for food, for humans. Because lawns contribute nothing that humans want or need.
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- stahtops 3y agoI mostly wanted to call attention to the lazy argument that we shouldn't do things that require human intervention. "Use less water on lawns so we have more water for food, for humans". That is a very one dimensional take. California's non-residential water usage doesn't just get used for human food, nor human food for Californians. Famously it gets bottled by Nestle, it gets used by Saudi Arabia to grow alfalfa for their cows, and it's used to grow almonds and other products that are exported outside of California. So we have all these organizations using water in California, making a profit, exporting water from the state. (It's something like an 80/20 split for agriculture vs residential/urban water usage by the way). So no, I don't agree that individual Californians should need to justify a patch of grass so that corporations and foreign nationals can continue exploiting our water resources. Sacramento should go fix literally all of that first.
- relativ575 3y agoAnd for your mental health. Why do you think people spend so much time and money on home decoration?
- bluefirebrand 3y agoYou know there's other things to plant that use less water and still look nice aside from grass. If your mental health depends on specifically grass and will not accept any substitute, then I'm just sad for you. Grass is the most boring plant to look at.