Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Breitbart – According to NYT if you maintain a nice garden lawn and mow it regularly you are upholding a symbol of racism and demonstrating your disregard for your personal carbon footprint.
The Great American Lawn: How the Dream Was Manufactured
America’s manicured front lawns represent the pride of homeownership, and the cultivation of community. But the ways we maintain them risk hurting the environment and contributing to climate change. So why do we even have lawns in the first place? We traced their history, starting with early European colonists.
Below, you’ll find some of the sources that helped us the most and other tidbits we weren’t able to fit into the video.
Aug. 9, 2019
America’s manicured front lawns represent the pride of homeownership, and the cultivation of community. But the ways we maintain them risk hurting the environment and contributing to climate change. So why do we even have lawns in the first place? We traced their history, starting with early European colonists.
Below, you’ll find some of the sources that helped us the most and other tidbits we weren’t able to fit into the video.
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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/09/video/lawn-grass-environment-history.html
The video starts by blaming colonists for importing foreign seed to feed their cattle, quickly moves to dissing George Washington for popularising manicured European style lawns maintained by slaves, then blames mechanised lawnmowers and advances in the printing press like colored advertising prints for contributing to climate change.
Low cost home loans for WW2 veterans are also attacked because they encouraged the veterans to embrace the climate destroying American dream.
They even attack Roosevelt for for mowing his lawn, when reporters wanted to ask him questions.
What can I say? Dissing the dreams of the deplorables seems to be a liberal pastime these days, especially when liberals manage to work in a few environmental and climate themes. Accusing people who want a nice house and a nice lawn of indirectly supporting the memory of slavery is just an added bonus.
Liberals won’t be happy until we’re all living in caves – except the climate elite like themselves of course, who will still enjoy the full benefits of industrial civilisation because they believe their special mission entitles them to a few perks.
Update (EW): Updated the image to a picture of George Washington, who is attacked in the video for popularising the idea of manicured lawns maintained by slaves.
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The people who are worried about using gasoline lawnmowers could always use an electric lawnmower if they want to cut down on the CO2 creation, because they feel CO2 is a problem.
I prefer to use an electric lawn mower because that’s what I used when I was a teenager. I considered it a privilege to mow the lawn at our house. It paid more than any other chore. It also gave a feeling of accomplishment when it was finished.
I like not having to haul/store gasoline, tune the mower, and struggle to get it to start in 100 degree weather when company is coming and the grass needs cutting. I did figure out that “watering” my blue jeans before I mowed was a great way to stay cool, even in 100 degree weather.
Good times, good times!
America is the melting pot of the world and every American knows it from experience. Exceptions are NOT the rule. But we’re immersed in a media-generated smoke & mirrors illusion and the climate change fraud is the worst of it. The entire democrat platform is EC0-FASCISM, built on the monster of big lies that carbon dioxide is a threat. And if we don’t clear the air of that TRULY absurd bullshit and soon, America WILL be replaced by a techno-totalitarian new world order. Know Thy Enemy.
Get rid of lawns and half of Floridas’s Black and Hispanic community lose their jobs
And ‘grossly hypocritical’ ……..
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/08/16/nyt-lawns-are-symbols-of-racism-and-bad-for-global-warming/#comment-2772665
This is so ridiculous that I can’t even comment. Oh wait, I just commented — I lied.
Lawn clippings make a great addition to my homemade compost heap, which helps immensely in conditioning the soil of my racist home vegetable gardens.
Pffft, the NYT. They are not liberals they are socialists. There is not a classical liberal bone within the entire Democratic Party actually…. They are Socialists right down to their red cotton socks.
As for lawns. Lawns cut down on the dust and give your children a safe place to play. In third world countries smoke and dust cause major health problems for children…. indeed you don’t have to go to a third world country to see that, just an aboriginal community and you’ll see kids playing in the dust, their eyes pink with conjunctivitis, snot streaming from their noses and pus in their ears…. all the consequence of dust, smoke, flies and bad hygiene.
Households with lawns are an indication that the society is smart enough to provide plentiful water for its citizens and motivated enough to be house proud and caring. Well kept lawns are a visual sign of an enterprising, functional society….. The absence of lawns and gardens is a sign of socialism and dysfunction.
Plus I prefer to see kids playing on lawns, than in the dust.
I’ve heard this anti lawn sentiment from Greenies before. It’s not new.
So we are labeled “Racist” if we have a lawn. I don’t understand. There are many people of color that have lawns.
Is someone trying to redefine “Racist”?
Lets see: Just to name a few, we have war on 1st, 2 nd and 4th Amendments. We have a war on being ‘White”, being a “Male”, being “Middle Class” “Being Rich” (Socialist definition of Rich: Someone who has a job.) What do progressive socialists really want? Personally I think progressive socialists want a world government not based on individual rights.
Orwell suggested that many socialists were less motivated by a love of the poor than a hatred of the rich.
Some aren’t overmuch concerned with bringing others up to their level, as with measuring inequality of outcomes and pulling down anyone more successful.
Equality through destruction, rather than construction.