Middle class habits and whatnot get the blame for most ecological ills.[1] It’s your car commute that is causing climate change, not the whole system of fossil

Middle class habits and whatnot get the blame for most ecological ills.[1] It’s your car commute that is causing climate change, not the whole system of fossil fuel dependence.[2] It’s all those plastic straws and plastic bags that you’re using, not the fishing industry dumping their equipment in the Ocean. It’s you throwing out food, not food makers being incentivized to throw out food in order to optimize supply for profit. It’s your lawn using all the water which is causing a water shortage in California, not the farming industry growing almonds in an arid climate. And now it’s your, oh look it’s your lawn again. On the one hand you can look at America. It ain’t very densely populated. And it takes active effort to get rid of dandelions. Are we really that good at mowing lawns and paving over nature? On the other hand Georgia is a big piece of land. If I were an American I would say screw it, let’s just 1. Ban sickeningly green residential lawns in arid climates 2. All lawns that remain are required to have at least 1/3 dandelion per square feet Would that help the bees and the water shortage? Maybe. But at least opinion-makers would stop complaining. (And move on to the next thing.) [1] I wrote all of this and then a Ctrl+Shift+W fatfinger killed it, thanks Chrome. Reminds to use a “notepad” before posting. [2] And cars play a role in that. And who made countries like America massively car-dependent? Joe Parkingspace who has to live one hour by car from work or two hours by bus? (This is ill-informed. I’m not American so I don’t know what the ratios are on the ground. And it will differ from Philadelphia to Vancouver, WA.)