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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.  [b]The social norms around things like green lawns drive me bonkers—it’s such a collective inaction problem.[/b]  [/quote]
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. [/quote]

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...[/quote]
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. [/quote]

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