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Old May 31st, 2023 #1
Nikola Bijeliti
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Please Kill Your Lawn
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We are heading for an insect apocalypse, which would spell disaster for humankind. It's time we turn our lawns back into productive plant communities.

We are a country obsessed with large swaths of lawn. Lawn grass is the most-grown crop in the United States, yet one that we can not eat. Lawns require a dizzying supply of water and chemicals, while depriving pollinators and other insects of the support they need.

There is a long list of all the reasons that lawns are an ecological nightmare, but the insect situation may be the most urgent.

The great insect extinction

Last year, the first global scientific review on the worldwide decline of insects was published and it was just really grim. It didn't get much fanfare, even though it found that more than 40 percent of insect species are declining and a third are endangered. The rate of extinction is eight times faster than that of mammals, birds and reptiles. At the rate insects are declining, they could vanish within a century.

As I wrote about the findings, "if we lose all the insects, then we lose everything that eats the insects, and then we lose everything that eats the things that eat the insects and so on. They are also essential for pollination and the recycling of nutrients. You can see where this is going: As the authors put it, a 'catastrophic collapse of nature’s ecosystems.'"

According to the authors, the most significant driver behind these plummeting numbers is habitat loss and conversion to intensive agriculture and urbanization.

Which brings us back to lawns.
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Old May 31st, 2023 #2
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Trillions of insects, but something like 600 million White people remaining in the world. Fucking tree huggers.
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Old May 31st, 2023 #3
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The English are known for turning their backyards into gardens. Heck, they don't even call them backyards, just gardens.
 
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I think Monsanto is more to blame than lawns.
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