Especially ironic when suburbanites rave about how houses are infinitely better than apartments because they’re “closer to nature.” You want to be closer to nature? Let natural processes work and have a lawn of whatever grows in your area naturally (even an “invasive” species is better than lawn grasses, unironically, and lawn grasses are almost always also non-native species, just ones that can’t actually survive in the environment.) Don’t water, don’t mow, don’t fertilize, just let nature do its thing. It will also attract more pollinators, birds, wildlife in general and instead of a lawn, soon you’ll have a natural meadow in your yard. That’s nature, a lawn that needs excessive water, chemical fertilizers, and poison just to maintain isn’t.

    • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      10
      ·
      1 year ago

      And vegetation can grow in cities. If you don’t turn the entire city into parking lots middle-america style, cities can have plenty of public parks.

    • nottheengineer@feddit.de
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      1 year ago

      If that wrong thing isn’t a parasite to the local nature, then it’s definitely better than nothing.