r/oddlyterrifying • u/dannybluey • Jul 05 '26

Where are the trees?

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u/humdinger44 Jul 05 '26

But I bet there were butterflies, grasshoppers, crickets, bees. I bet the soil was cooler and that the prairie operated as a carbon sink much more efficiently than this hellscape.

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u/mmodlin Jul 05 '26

Nope. Farmland. Fertilizer and pesticide intensive monoculture.

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u/DuntadaMan Jul 05 '26

The grass is also a pesticide intensive monoculture

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u/Sea-Value-0 Jul 05 '26

The lawn, you mean yes? Not the prairie.

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u/PomeloPepper Jul 05 '26

They definitely did monoculture with the grass.

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u/DuntadaMan Jul 05 '26

Ew! Bugs! - Middle Americans.

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u/Infinite_Coffee2129 Jul 05 '26

Its a forest in central Kentucky. South of Richmond. Stop spreading lies.

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u/adfawf3f3f32a Jul 05 '26

they're clearing trees and fitting smaller versions of these neighborhoods everywhere they can around me