Salt Lake City's impending disaster

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m from Arizona and the Phoenicians watering their lawns in the 80s was super irritating even back then when we already knew we had a massive water shortage pending. The social norms around things like green lawns drive me bonkers—it’s such a collective inaction problem.

I think you mean Philistines, but it doesn't really apply to your sentence. Both were ancient tribes along the Mediterranean. Phoenicians were famous for their maritime routes and trade. Philistines were enemies of the ancient Israelites, and over the centuries, have been (probably unfairly) portrayed as a crude people without culture or art. So you usually call someone a Philistine if they're uncultured or unappreciative of the finer things in life.

NP. Uh, a Phoenician is also a person from...Phoenix.

😂😂😂😂

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m from Arizona and the Phoenicians watering their lawns in the 80s was super irritating even back then when we already knew we had a massive water shortage pending. The social norms around things like green lawns drive me bonkers—it’s such a collective inaction problem.

It’s collective inaction but also outright hostility from the golf course lawn brigade. I mean you mention the downsides to a lawn everywhere (and they’re not good anywhere, even if it isn’t as severe as arsenic dust) and you’d think you just made a cutting “your mother” joke.

[Anonymous]

I found this article to be so haunting and depressing. If SLC can't even pass a law banning HOA mandates to water your lawn to help avoid the entire city being poisoned by toxic dust, what hope is there for the rest of us? It is truly just like "Don't Look Up"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I found this article to be so haunting and depressing. If SLC can't even pass a law banning HOA mandates to water your lawn to help avoid the entire city being poisoned by toxic dust, what hope is there for the rest of us? It is truly just like "Don't Look Up"

I guess let them choke on arsenic?

When a person thinks about how much good HOAs could be used for - native plantings and such - and how instead they’re used for maximum water wasting, it’s just idiotic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m from Arizona and the Phoenicians watering their lawns in the 80s was super irritating even back then when we already knew we had a massive water shortage pending. The social norms around things like green lawns drive me bonkers—it’s such a collective inaction problem.

It’s collective inaction but also outright hostility from the golf course lawn brigade. I mean you mention the downsides to a lawn everywhere (and they’re not good anywhere, even if it isn’t as severe as arsenic dust) and you’d think you just made a cutting “your mother” joke.

I really don't get it. Homogeneous grass lawns are toxic for so many reasons, and they require so much upkeep even if you live somewhere water is plentiful. Why are people so yards that embrace the native biome, if only because it would be so much easier to maintain...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m from Arizona and the Phoenicians watering their lawns in the 80s was super irritating even back then when we already knew we had a massive water shortage pending. The social norms around things like green lawns drive me bonkers—it’s such a collective inaction problem.

+1
If you live in the desert, you should not have a grass lawn. It's insane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m from Arizona and the Phoenicians watering their lawns in the 80s was super irritating even back then when we already knew we had a massive water shortage pending. The social norms around things like green lawns drive me bonkers—it’s such a collective inaction problem.

It’s collective inaction but also outright hostility from the golf course lawn brigade. I mean you mention the downsides to a lawn everywhere (and they’re not good anywhere, even if it isn’t as severe as arsenic dust) and you’d think you just made a cutting “your mother” joke.

I really don't get it. Homogeneous grass lawns are toxic for so many reasons, and they require so much upkeep even if you live somewhere water is plentiful. Why are people so yards that embrace the native biome, if only because it would be so much easier to maintain...

It’s like a mental illness. I have three neighbors that spend their days moving their sprinklers around so that their lawn gets good water. To what end? Grass? That they don’t ever go on except to move the sprinklers? It’s weird.