Climate Change? Nahhh ...

Such as owning a home on property.

Government land grabs sound fun.

 

Good lord you’re dense. I said property rights for a very specific reason. I own a home. My home includes a yard. My yard has lawn that requires watering. The county and the state say I need to limit the watering of my lawn to three days a week for no more than 20 minutes at a time. Water restrictions. Fine. My lawn won’t look like the greens at the Masters but it is what the county says needs to happen because of our drought. A property rights advocate would tell the country to piss off and they are going to have a well manicured lawn because they is their goddamn right.

Property rights. Not home ownership.

Or my backyard doesn’t have a working sprinkler system. Don’t know why the previous owners jacked up the system but they did. My lawn in the back is basically just shrubs at this point. Whatever. I’ll deal with it later. But it is space that could accommodate a pool. No lawn. It’s just dead. Why not? Well the county put a moratorium on new pools and draining old ones to refill. Drought and all. Now a property rights guy can again tell the county to piss off he’s putting one in. His property.

Property rights. Not home ownership.

Or out in the Mojave Desert where water is at a premium, a guy can buy up acreage for less than what it would cost in the Central Valley. All fine. But water is finite and the water district is asking residents to forego lawns and be mindful of how much water they use. Guy who bought acreage is on a well and has some leeway with what he can do. Puts in a pistachio farm. Water demanding pistachios. In the desert.

Property rights. Not home ownership.

And if I bought in a strict HOA? Yeah I own my home, but my use of property is strictly regulated. Buy a condo. Own a home, not much property.

So again, people who don’t want to be told what they can do on their property.

And because you once again left it out, people in the pocket books of oil companies and fools.

 

My house is on a hill. Without grass the soil will erode. Without soil, my house will fall.

 

Bermuda, zoysia or native grasses that are drought tolerant?

 

Terrible with rye grass unless the blades are sharpened to scalpel dimensions. (voice of bloodied childhood experience).

 

Yeah, I got it. I’m suggesting there’s a potential implication to your concern.

I keep leaving out the people in the pockets of the oil companies because I figure they all own cars. So they’ve been counted already.

 

In the next 15 years...
Ground beef will be all but replaced by meatless options. Don't worry, steaks will still be a thing.
We will not drive our own cars and they will all be electric. We won't even own cars.
Solar power is going to be a major power producer in America and at least 10% of all Americans will not have a power bill anymore.

I do honestly believe that the Earth can come back from this. Everything is nature heals. Our skin. Our bones. Ecosystems. The air is purified by trees. The dirt filters the water.

The planet can heal itself. The problem is, we are not giving it a chance. I think in 15 years, it will have that chance to heal.

 

Cut your grass on the highest setting. Tall grass is strong grass.
Pay attention to how much it rains. If you get an inch of rain, you should not water for a week.
It's actually better to water once for 45 minutes than three times for 20 minutes.
And anywhere you cannot get grass to grow, plant ground cover.

Do you plant fescue where you live?

 

Yeah, the implication is there are people who think they can do what they want on their property regardless of the consequences to the planet or to others.

And nothing is stopping the oil exec from buying the fancy new all-electric Tesla if that electric power is generated by the natural gas that's making him money hand over fist.

So to sum up my point—because apparently you need a flow chart—the people who are denying climate change are

1. Those who don't want people restricting what they can or cannot do regardless of how it might be beneficial to others.
2. Those who don't want to give up convenience and will therefor distort reality to allow them to continue doing what they are doing.
3. Those who are making a shit-ton of money under the current system and refuse to change because it means they will potentially lose money.

And idiots...

 

It’s so interesting to watch these threads when you block certain people.

 

I usually turn my sprinklers off in the winter when we normally get rain and back on starting mid to late spring when the rain stops. But for perspective on the inch of rain, don't water for a week tip, between January and February 2019 we got nearly 12 inches of rain (which is a lot for my area). Since then we've received 25.5 inches and just 7.8 inches in the last year (July 2020 to present). With another La Niña forecast, I don't see that rain total getting much better this winter.

I'll try the once for 45 and see what that does for the lawn. I'm just going off of what my city is mandating for the 3 for 20.

As for fescue, I think that's what we have. I never bothered to ask and I don't know grass well enough to tell you but a quick Google of it looks like what my front lawn is.

 

Didn’t Texas have a difficult winter?