Bread and CircusesSomeone in Hungary has cleverly posed a very good question...
Is this what we call progress?
#Insects #Pesticides #Environment #BiodiversityLoss #Extinction
Ash@breadandcircuses
Excellent graphic!
Excellent graphic!
TinaQuilts@breadandcircuses I'm aiming for picture 1. Cultivated but diverse.
Grandpa Don@breadandcircuses
It sickens me to walk through my neighborhood. We have lived here 40 years. It was mostly woodland, some farming in the 1800s. Subdivided in the 1920s into 1-acre lots, but only about 1/3 were developed. So it was a lovely couple of 100 acre pocket of virgin and 2d growth woodland until rich folks discovered it. Now much of it looks like a golf coirse with $M castles. All they lack is moats.
It sickens me to walk through my neighborhood. We have lived here 40 years. It was mostly woodland, some farming in the 1800s. Subdivided in the 1920s into 1-acre lots, but only about 1/3 were developed. So it was a lovely couple of 100 acre pocket of virgin and 2d growth woodland until rich folks discovered it. Now much of it looks like a golf coirse with $M castles. All they lack is moats.
Trojan Duck@dbc3 @breadandcircuses You'd think they would need moats given that particle board doesn't hold up well against a trebuchet.
🔥RzaSha🌾🕊🩸@breadandcircuses the question is, from top to bottom or from bottom to top?
skua@breadandcircuses
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If only they concreted the whole yatd and gotvrid of that damned fly.
/end sarc
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If only they concreted the whole yatd and gotvrid of that damned fly.
/end sarc
Anders Christensen@breadandcircuses
@JugglingWithEggs
I've seen a similar trend with indoor plastic plants. Appearantly, plastic flowers have insane prices these days. I even see them in restaurants that promote themselves with words like 'real food', 'organic' and 'fresh ingredients' ... And still they expect me to eat the food prepared a place where the employees can't even manage to keep alive the houseplants in the dining area?
Juggling With Eggs@anchr @breadandcircuses I’ve been househunting for my parents over past few weeks and I’ve been stunned at how many small inner city gardens have plastic grass. This trend seems to have gathered pace since lockdown. The giveaway is bright green perfect lawn in March. I’d much rather see some moss and it looking slightly overgrown with a few weeds over fake and sterile.
Heliograph@Heliograph
Exactly. A few years back, it was popular to use house plants as air purifiers, scrubbing all kinds of nasty gasses from the air. Plastic plants are only likely to give nasty gasses, and to be a place where dust etc accumulates.
@JugglingWithEggs @breadandcircuses
Exactly. A few years back, it was popular to use house plants as air purifiers, scrubbing all kinds of nasty gasses from the air. Plastic plants are only likely to give nasty gasses, and to be a place where dust etc accumulates.
@JugglingWithEggs @breadandcircuses
Looking for explanations…@JugglingWithEggs @anchr @breadandcircuses Fake, sterile & hot. No mitigation of the heat island effect.
Awkward Boomer@Susan60 @JugglingWithEggs @anchr @breadandcircuses They get credit for no nitrate runoff, reduced water usage, and no noisy, smoke belching lawn mowers. But yeah, I wish a ghost would float down and tell them their “lawns” look ridiculous. Xeriscaping and other natural designs look really nice, are easy to maintain, and actually give back to Mother Earth.
@mgkspapa @JugglingWithEggs @anchr @breadandcircuses The previous owner of our place had put plastic grass out front between the fence & the kerb when the council said they’d charge for a footpath. It was good quality & looked ok, but I hate to think of the micro plastics it shed. Council has since put footpaths & nature strips in.
@Susan60
Yes. Plastic plants is the ultimate "appearance over substance".
@JugglingWithEggs @breadandcircuses
Yes. Plastic plants is the ultimate "appearance over substance".
@JugglingWithEggs @breadandcircuses
PeterD 🇩🇪 🇨🇦@breadandcircuses
Yup! I think so. 😉
We have several properties around town who look like the top house of the 3 houses.
Yup! I think so. 😉
We have several properties around town who look like the top house of the 3 houses.
Isaac MottistoneIf that is a plastic lawn in the third image, they would be lucky to have the fly. Maybe they don’t have such abominations in Hungary yet.
Sally Livingston@breadandcircuses Love the nod to Easter Island in no. 3.
Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ@breadandcircuses @GeofCox In the UK we've gone for the fourth picture in that series: fully tarmaced and three SUVs parked.