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My lawn would be so long if I mowed every other week. It would also be extremely bad for my lawn (fescue with KBG and rye).

I mow about twice a week and keep my lawn at 3” - 4”. I like it a bit longer.

If I let it grow for 2 weeks I’d be chopping off 50% or more of its length which puts the lawn under so much stress. It would be wide open for disease and it would actually be wasting water.

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this attitude, generally, is why we're never going to solve climate change

"It seems they created lawns of unsustainable crops that allegedly had aesthetic appeal, and then proceeded to maintain these crops until they ran out resources and all went extinct." -some alien archeologist in 1000 years

less that specifically and more the general attitude

*for ritual purposes, as they always qualify in archeological articles.

Sounds like something out of a Douglas Adams novel.

My lawn has no to very little effect on that. If anything it’s probably a carbon sink. Mower is electric and I use organics.

and you have no ability to project this out to a larger number of people?

mowing twice a week on what is almost certainly a two-cycle engine is very, very unlikely to be a carbon sink.

My mower is electric.

It’s hard to find 2-stroke gas engines today. Even cheap gas mowers use 4 stroke.

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