Bread and CircusesSomeone in Hungary has cleverly posed a very good question...
Is this what we call progress?
#Insects #Pesticides #Environment #BiodiversityLoss #Extinction
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