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原始链接: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43436933

Hacker News上的一篇帖子讨论了一篇题为“美国草坪的邪教”(The Cult of the American Lawn)的文章。 一位名为“georgeburdell”的评论者为拥有草坪辩护,因为他家孩子每天都在草坪上玩耍,而且草坪比灌木丛更容易维护。他还表示,除了化肥和杀菌剂外,他们避免使用大多数化学物质,并允许一些虫子生存。他批评人造草坪是生态死区和热岛效应的来源,并质疑为什么人造草坪能获得税收减免。 “ceejayoz”认为,人造草坪获得税收减免的原因是节约用水。 “jmclnx”不拥有草坪,他希望拥有一个蒲公英草坪,但房主却使用化学物质来维护传统的草坪。 “lotsofpulp”建议实行边际水价,以抑制草坪过度用水,但他承认说服人们关注长期后果是一项挑战。

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    6 points by ecliptik 1 hour ago | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments










    Lawn apologist here. I have one because my kids use it daily, and it’s easy to spend 30 minutes to mow it a few times a month instead of maintaining countless bushes in the same space. I also don’t use chemicals except fertilizer and a copper-based fungicide, so there’s a decent amount of bug life.

    The real ecological dead zones are the fake grass “lawns”, that are both nutrient free and heat islands, and for some reason get tax breaks to install.



    > for some reason get tax breaks to install

    Isn't that reason "water"?



    As a non-owner, I would love to have a lawn of dandelions, but the owner insists on a lawn and buys a lot of chemicals to keep it that way.


    Simple solution is marginal water prices. Make the price curve steeper and steeper until water consumption decreases to desired levels.

    Convincing people to care about the future is the hard part though, and I have no solution for that.







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