One boomer was remarking about the rabbits and squirrels in their yard. The rabbits are there because we no longer have foxes because the boomers poison their yards. The squirrels are a food source for our at-risk birds of prey, while their ecological role spreading plant seeds adds to biodiversity and landscape regeneration in important ways. She called them “vile little creatures” and wished there was a way to kill them all.
The other’s yard was 90% dedicated to Kentucky bluegrass. Purely ornamental, green concrete that’s too poisonous for the rabbits to eat despite their effort. When I arrived she was pulling clover out of the only garden bed. When I left an hour later, she was still pulling cover out and asked if I could spray the bed with glyphosate to kill them. I said she might want to keep that species because it’s important for pollinators and adds to the health of the soil for her other flowers. She opted for a $150 glyphosate treatment which makes the ground carcinogenic and takes two weeks to work.
I fucking hate these people. I hate their settler-colonialism toward nature, their sociopathic need for domination, and their utter tastelessness once they’ve achieved that domination at the expense of every other species that once lived in that yard. In this desert these deranged freaks will spend thousands of dollars per year to preserve their lawns. The violence behind their bullshit community fetish is only ignored because their neighbours are worse.
American suburbanites are some of the most deranged people I’ve met. Absolutely hostile to any wildlife that steps on their yard, obsessing over the cleanliness of their grass they waste water resources on, poisoning the soil, and all to achieve a bland and lifeless look. So glad that suburbs aren’t a thing where I live.
It’s wild that some people seem to just fucking hate nature. This thing is here, keeps us all alive, we exist in dependence to it, is beautiful in so many ways, can be an honest-to-god antidepressant and boomer mentality people just hate it.
It’s benign to them. They’ve got that warped sense of modernism that gave us hydroelectric dams in any space that could fit one. We’ve conquered nature and now it’s a subservient background feature whose value comes from entertaining or feeding us. If it doesn’t do one of those two things, even if we can see it feeding a bee or a bird, it detracts from the thing nearest to it which entertains or feeds us.
If you LOVE your LAWN then you will REPLACE that INVASIVE grass with BEAUTIFUL and NATURAL species of PLANTS
But I have a desperate attachment to my grass with three separate diseases on top of multiple other environmental issues I can’t fix but can be charged hundreds of dollars yearly to maintain. Those plants might feed a pollinator for free.
maybe try and trick them into thinking that the native grass is really fashionable
Then it would need less water and wouldn’t get all those diseases. My boss only gets to drive a sports car if the turf is diseased.
Or you can be like some people I know and replace it with litter astroturf to save water :bern-disgust:
I tried to tell them about that and how it was literally litter with a different physical form and their boomer brains just shut me out with
“Yes but we really just want to see some green out there”
:grillman:
Like that’s where their mind went: they had destroyed the natural world, so they sought to replace it with a facsimile which would destroy it further
:guts-rage:
When people defend boomers i just assume they are way younger than me and have not had the life time of insane interactions I’ve had with them
Edit. And you think the suburban ones are bad. Try being in ag. Those fuckers are real sickos. Boomer ranchers hate trees. Boomer farmers love the green round up revolution and are openly hostile to any alternative way of growing that they will go out of their way to get you out of their community
Yeah most farmerd don’t care and farms of that scale are using immigrant labor. And those guys either don’t understand that plastic doesn’t break down or straight up don’t care. I’m sure it’s both.
I leased land from a lady that just let all her abandoned flower beds just get over grown and would leave all the plastic weed mats and irrigation in the ground. Had to pull up tons of it to clean up the field i was leasing.
They don’t care. Most of them are extremely isolated and miserable. Even in farm communities they all hate each other and all of them are willing to cut their neighbor off at the knees to take their account. It’s really just a prime example of what only seeking profit does to people.
