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Letter: Why do we have lawns?

by HV1 Staff
May 26, 2021
in Letters
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New Paltz considers loosening lawn cutting requirement

The aesthetic of lawns, enshrined in Village of New Paltz code, is being revisited. A public hearing will be held on November 13. (Photo by Lauren Thomas)

(Photo by Lauren Thomas)

I don’t understand why we have lawns. They steal habitat from wildlife that need that land and its resources (food, shelter et cetera) to survive. It robs the planet of trees and plants that sequester carbon.

What is a lawn? A monoculture that is useless. It has no nutritional value to man, isn’t necessary for our survival and its maintenance threatens the biosphere because it requires enormous fossil fuel resources (gas, oil, fertilizes and pesticides).

One gallon of gas weighs six pounds. Of that, 5.5 pounds is carbon. When that one gallon is burned, the carbon attaches to oxygen in the atmosphere, creating 19 pounds of carbon dioxide (three times more pounds than the gallon of gas it came from)! It is a huge contributor to climate change.

Please stop the insanity. A 20-to-30-foot path of lawn around a house is more than enough. Give nature a chance. We are not the only species that matters.

Misha Fredericks
Gardiner

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