It doesn’t require constant watering and fertilizer that leeches into ground water just so you can have perfectly green 2" tall grass fully exposed to the sun that doesn’t want to live there and call it “nature”.
If you mow your lawn with an electric lawn mower that’s charged via solar panels, your lawn is a carbon sink (assuming you water it via some renewable means).
If you’re going to get nitpicky we could focus on how much heat the concrete retains vs plant life which can absorb and use the energy. All the people with concrete or rock yards around here are super hot, my dog and I have to run by in the summer. Paving vast surfaces is a poor alternative to landscaping. The soil underneath will dry and the animals, insects, microflora, etc will all be forced out and that part of the earth will just be dead.
But really it just looks dumb and Jackie planted some of those trees.
I agree. I hate Trump as much as anyone else, but if a President I liked did this, it wouldn’t be the end of the world.
In principle, I don’t mind if a space mainly used for events, with chairs placed there often, should be hardscape. It’s not as if lawn can’t be put back there in the future. Lawn isn’t a heritage tree or rose shrub.
To be fair though, the photo makes it look pretty huge as an expanse of paved area.
Yeah, it’s not that he did it per se, it’s the idea that he probably did it because he’s a classless fat troll.
Same with some of his policies; grand scheme of things if they were presented by most other people I’d have little objection, but because they’re motivated by greed, hate or narcissism I don’t want to give the twat an inch.
A manicured grass lawn is not nature
A good representation of the old regimen, as unnatural as concrete, but at least trying to appear natural
It’s more nature than what’s there now
Stone isn’t nature? Looks like natural stone to me. It’s ugly AF but both are artifical and have little to do with nature.
Nothing is synthetic it’s all made of stuff we have here on earth!
I see your point and raise my promethium-146 sprinkled in my tiles.
That’s just organic star stuff.
Everything that exists is natural. That’s why the supernatural doesn’t exist.
If you just want to be a contrarian for the hell of it, you’re doing great.
I guess a concrete lot is better in your opinion.
It doesn’t require constant watering and fertilizer that leeches into ground water just so you can have perfectly green 2" tall grass fully exposed to the sun that doesn’t want to live there and call it “nature”.
If you mow your lawn with an electric lawn mower that’s charged via solar panels, your lawn is a carbon sink (assuming you water it via some renewable means).
They never should have ripped the solar panels off the Whitehouse.
If you’re going to get nitpicky we could focus on how much heat the concrete retains vs plant life which can absorb and use the energy. All the people with concrete or rock yards around here are super hot, my dog and I have to run by in the summer. Paving vast surfaces is a poor alternative to landscaping. The soil underneath will dry and the animals, insects, microflora, etc will all be forced out and that part of the earth will just be dead.
But really it just looks dumb and Jackie planted some of those trees.
Yeah, for this space that is frequently used to host people or filled with chairs for a press conference, it is better and makes more sense.
Ugly and only heat, i do not see the better for this nonsense
I agree. I hate Trump as much as anyone else, but if a President I liked did this, it wouldn’t be the end of the world.
In principle, I don’t mind if a space mainly used for events, with chairs placed there often, should be hardscape. It’s not as if lawn can’t be put back there in the future. Lawn isn’t a heritage tree or rose shrub.
To be fair though, the photo makes it look pretty huge as an expanse of paved area.
Yeah, it’s not that he did it per se, it’s the idea that he probably did it because he’s a classless fat troll.
Same with some of his policies; grand scheme of things if they were presented by most other people I’d have little objection, but because they’re motivated by greed, hate or narcissism I don’t want to give the twat an inch.