Because mowers use gasoline and because water is more valuable than gold in the communist state of California. Nevermind that grass is integral to cleaner and more breathable air by virtue of being a CO2 absorbing, oxygen producing plant. Oh wait, they have an answer for that too: the new NPC update insists that grass doesn't help the environment and is a net polluter due to CO2 escaping from clippings and for fertilizer (evil nitrogen) being used in its cultivation.
This doesn't pass my smell test. CO2 isn't 'stored' in grass, it is consumed during its growth and oxygen is expelled as a byproduct of its consumption. The fact that CO2 exists in dead grass is not evidence that grass never used any of it beyond storage.
Additionally, I reject the premise that CO2 and Nitrogen are pollutants. They are important elements of our atmosphere that are necessary for all life. Categorizing them as dangerous polluting chemicals is just a way to crack down on your private enjoyment of your own property. It is also a subtle attempt to categorize animals (humans especially) as evil because you exhale this dangerous climate killing gas.
We used to joke in the 90s about the Democrat nuts trying to legislatively control "cow farts" with their methane emissions standards. But it was only a joke in the illustrative sense. This is what they were actually doing, but they framed it as "all these dangerous emissive chemicals should be regulated" without specifying they were referring to... actual farts from actual cows as a way of controlling ranchers and food producers and pricing beef out of the market so we'd turn to their favorite food soy.
Virtue signaling that replacing real outdoor grass with fucking carpet. Is peak nonsense.
Additionally, I reject the premise that CO2 and Nitrogen are pollutants. They are important elements of our atmosphere that are necessary for all life.
I think the reason they're using is that nitrogen from cow pies can seep all the way into the water table thus making it unsafe, especially for those who get their own water via wells etc. Even if that were true, only now it is a problem? Even when they give a credible explanation they still leave room for you to go "wait a minute, but if...?"
CO2 isn't stored in grass; carbon is. I know "carbon" is often used as shorthand for CO2 but in this case it's carbon. The plant takes in CO2 expels O2 and the carbon is used by the plant to form things like cellulose. When the grass is dead it breaks down in various ways and the end point is that the carbon atoms eventually recombine with oxygen and you get back the same amount of CO2. In natural settings some of the carbon from plants can end up back in the soil but probably not in the case of a manicured lawn like you'd find at Disney.
Our atmosphere is 78 percent nitrogen to begin with. Adding a bit more to the ground isn't going to fuck with anything. It's just the new thing to scare Democrat voters.
They’re doing it supposedly to save water. Coz there’s a drought hurr durr. Never mind the fact that the large outdoor swimming pool is still in full use. Never mind the fact that REAL grass is a carbon sink and removes it from the atmosphere while Astroturf doesnt and also reflects the heat from the sun.
No - I’m sure this is a cost cutting move by Disney to reduce labor and maintenance costs but it sure is a feel good story to sell to stupid leftists.
Passive desalination. Just massive tubs filled with saltwater that evaporates naturally in the sun. It's not very fast, but you could get thousands of gallons a day out of one with zero energy use. People have been doing it for millennia.
If there really was a water crisis, they'd be investing the $500 it costs to put a plastic cover on top of a steel tub. They're doing nothing because there is no crisis. They just don't want you having anything.
Switching to drought-resistant grasses would have been my first choice, though it's possible that they'd already optimised that as far as they could without sacrificing other characteristics.
Just use purely native grasses mixed with wildflowers, and don't bother with weeding or feeding it, and let the rains wet it.
It won't be so pretty, but the problem is, the notion of what humans think is "pretty".
Fields of grass are nice, but only if you really need them for doing stuff on.
Compost the clippings (along with other organic waste, of which I'm sure there are literal TONS of at any park, especially if they include zoological displays. ie, the Calgary Zoo sells composted "Zoo Poo" as fertilizer.)
Because mowers use gasoline and because water is more valuable than gold in the communist state of California. Nevermind that grass is integral to cleaner and more breathable air by virtue of being a CO2 absorbing, oxygen producing plant. Oh wait, they have an answer for that too: the new NPC update insists that grass doesn't help the environment and is a net polluter due to CO2 escaping from clippings and for fertilizer (evil nitrogen) being used in its cultivation.
This doesn't pass my smell test. CO2 isn't 'stored' in grass, it is consumed during its growth and oxygen is expelled as a byproduct of its consumption. The fact that CO2 exists in dead grass is not evidence that grass never used any of it beyond storage.
Additionally, I reject the premise that CO2 and Nitrogen are pollutants. They are important elements of our atmosphere that are necessary for all life. Categorizing them as dangerous polluting chemicals is just a way to crack down on your private enjoyment of your own property. It is also a subtle attempt to categorize animals (humans especially) as evil because you exhale this dangerous climate killing gas.
We used to joke in the 90s about the Democrat nuts trying to legislatively control "cow farts" with their methane emissions standards. But it was only a joke in the illustrative sense. This is what they were actually doing, but they framed it as "all these dangerous emissive chemicals should be regulated" without specifying they were referring to... actual farts from actual cows as a way of controlling ranchers and food producers and pricing beef out of the market so we'd turn to their favorite food soy.
Virtue signaling that replacing real outdoor grass with fucking carpet. Is peak nonsense.
I think the reason they're using is that nitrogen from cow pies can seep all the way into the water table thus making it unsafe, especially for those who get their own water via wells etc. Even if that were true, only now it is a problem? Even when they give a credible explanation they still leave room for you to go "wait a minute, but if...?"
CO2 isn't stored in grass; carbon is. I know "carbon" is often used as shorthand for CO2 but in this case it's carbon. The plant takes in CO2 expels O2 and the carbon is used by the plant to form things like cellulose. When the grass is dead it breaks down in various ways and the end point is that the carbon atoms eventually recombine with oxygen and you get back the same amount of CO2. In natural settings some of the carbon from plants can end up back in the soil but probably not in the case of a manicured lawn like you'd find at Disney.
That being said fuck fake grass.
Our atmosphere is 78 percent nitrogen to begin with. Adding a bit more to the ground isn't going to fuck with anything. It's just the new thing to scare Democrat voters.
They’re doing it supposedly to save water. Coz there’s a drought hurr durr. Never mind the fact that the large outdoor swimming pool is still in full use. Never mind the fact that REAL grass is a carbon sink and removes it from the atmosphere while Astroturf doesnt and also reflects the heat from the sun.
No - I’m sure this is a cost cutting move by Disney to reduce labor and maintenance costs but it sure is a feel good story to sell to stupid leftists.
They will also claim carbon credits for it.
The fact that California never invested heavily enough in desalination plants throughout the years is proof that state was destined to burn.
It's Cali: No amount of desalination plants could make those people less salty.
OH, you meant for the water. Right. That makes more sense.
There's not much point investing in desalination plants when they refuse to invest in their power grid.
Passive desalination. Just massive tubs filled with saltwater that evaporates naturally in the sun. It's not very fast, but you could get thousands of gallons a day out of one with zero energy use. People have been doing it for millennia.
If there really was a water crisis, they'd be investing the $500 it costs to put a plastic cover on top of a steel tub. They're doing nothing because there is no crisis. They just don't want you having anything.
Switching to drought-resistant grasses would have been my first choice, though it's possible that they'd already optimised that as far as they could without sacrificing other characteristics.
Plastic good! Nature bad!
Just use purely native grasses mixed with wildflowers, and don't bother with weeding or feeding it, and let the rains wet it.
It won't be so pretty, but the problem is, the notion of what humans think is "pretty".
Fields of grass are nice, but only if you really need them for doing stuff on.
Compost the clippings (along with other organic waste, of which I'm sure there are literal TONS of at any park, especially if they include zoological displays. ie, the Calgary Zoo sells composted "Zoo Poo" as fertilizer.)
Bug fuck nuts.