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[–] [email protected] 123 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (13 children)

But why is it human nature to put a bench right where people are walking. It's like people in charge get off on creating obstacles for the common man just to feel powerful.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Over time, it will destroy large parts of the park.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago (2 children)

A field of monoculture grass is already destroyed.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ackchyually, grass is almost always a mixture of different species (ryegrass, fescue and bluegrass) and therefore not a monoculture.

A lawn has its uses in parks, for example to have a Picknick. If you trow in some clover, daisies and ribwort, don't spray and patches are left to grow to provide shelter it's not that bad for biodiversity, depending on the climate of course.

Example of patch of long grass

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Yeah, there's grass and then there's grass. Sure. I got no beef with a field of mixed grass that's left to grow, especially if there's mixed native wildflowers etc.

It's the fields of monoculture non-native grass that the Suburban White Dude[tm] wants to obsessively cultivate and that seems to be the goal of parks departments everywhere that's the problem.

My partner ranted to me the other day that she couldn't get a 10m^2 area from a local municipal parks department recently for a Miyawaki forest plot. No reasons, just "no." Very frustrating group of fuckin' boomers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago
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