Lawns are stupid resource-sucks. Giant swaths of land deliberately covered with one and only one species of plant that serves no particular purpose, with all other species eradicated if they dare infringe upon the area. It's ethnic cleansing on the botanical level!
Any areas currently used for lawns should have to be used for something beneficial to society. For example:
- growing food
- solar panels
- growing endangered native plants
- creating habitat appropriate for endangered native animals
Now not everyone can do these things. Some people own lawns but just aren't capable of farming or stewardship of endangered species. I totally understand - I have a black thumb myself. If this is the case, people should have the option to just neglect their lawns, letting the grass grow and the weeds take over and allowing the local ecosystem to slowly reclaim the land.
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Did you know there is a movement trying to promote this? They are trying to get people in suburban neighbourhoods to let their lawns take their natural course, and all blend together back into the environment.
Now that I have a backyard, I really understand how wasteful the lawn is - especially the front! Which no one ever uses.
Lots of people don't water and let whatever species appears just take root. Not enough, but more than, say, when I was a kid.
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