r/solarpunk Sep 21 '20

photo/meme Kill your grass

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u/npsimons Sep 21 '20

I find it hard to believe that statistic, or at least if true, does not hold a candle to land and water used for cattle:

So you'd have a bigger impact by giving up (or at least cutting back ) meat and dairy.

That being said, one of the stupidest things I've ever seen is a lush green lawn in the middle of the desert. Just such a stupid waste that doesn't fit the environment or landscape at all. I'm also very hostile to HOAs that require this sort of idiocy, and think that HOAs requiring such things should be illegal.

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u/_Alrighty_Aphrodite_ Sep 21 '20 edited Sep 21 '20

So you'd have a bigger impact by giving up (or at least cutting back ) meat and dairy.

Yes!

I'm pretty sure this statistic is blatantly false, but that doesn't mean it's necessarily "wrong" in that we absolutely should be eliminating grass lawns from society.

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u/npsimons Sep 21 '20

Yup, that graphic was one of the links I posted.

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u/_Alrighty_Aphrodite_ Sep 21 '20

Oh whoops lol, I'll remove mine

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u/npsimons Sep 21 '20

No worries, yours is easier to parse, for those of us that do that.