It also looks like something you’d find at a cheap, trashy resort where children poop in the pool.
Comment on The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement
Kirp123@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s a good representation of this new regime. Tear down nature and replace it with a parking lot.
MBech@feddit.dk 2 months ago
EvilEdgelord@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
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Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
I came to the comments looking for this song. I did not expect to learn that the version by Counting Crows was a cover however. Neat!
EvilEdgelord@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
That’s not the version from Clerks 2, though 😛
theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 2 months ago
A manicured grass lawn is not nature
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
It’s more nature that what’s there now
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Stone isn’t nature? Looks like natural stone to me. It’s ugly AF but both are artifical and have little to do with nature.
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
If you just want to be a contrarian for the hell of it, you’re doing great.
foggy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Nothing is synthetic it’s all made of stuff we have here on earth!
Kirp123@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I guess a concrete lot is better in your opinion.
3abas@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It doesn’t require constant watering and fertilizer that leeches into ground water just so you can have perfectly green 2" tall grass fully exposed to the sun that doesn’t want to live there and call it “nature”.
turtlesareneat@discuss.online 2 months ago
If you’re going to get nitpicky we could focus on how much heat the concrete retains vs plant life which can absorb and use the energy. All the people with concrete or rock yards around here are super hot, my dog and I have to run by in the summer. Paving vast surfaces is a poor alternative to landscaping. The soil underneath will dry and the animals, insects, microflora, etc will all be forced out and that part of the earth will just be dead.
But really it just looks dumb and Jackie planted some of those trees.
riskable@programming.dev 2 months ago
If you mow your lawn with an electric lawn mower that’s charged via solar panels, your lawn is a carbon sink (assuming you water it via some renewable means).
theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, for this space that is frequently used to host people or filled with chairs for a press conference, it is better and makes more sense.
GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
The problem is, have you ever noticed how much hotter you are in a parking lot on a warm day than when you are in a park? Well, now those events are happening on a parking lot and not a park. Furniture can be designed to work on turf, or temporary fixtures could be put in place to mitigate the drawbacks of furniture on lawns, but the absorbed and reflected heat will be hard to get rid of. Hopefully this area is small enough to not have a big impact on the temperature there.
I honestly don’t think it looks bad, but I suspect it’s more for Trump to put his stamp on it than anything else, and to erase the efforts of others before him. And I suspect it will be more uncomfortable than it was before.
elflakoinri@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
Ugly and only heat, i do not see the better
sthetic@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I agree. I hate Trump as much as anyone else, but if a President I liked did this, it wouldn’t be the end of the world.
In principle, I don’t mind if a space mainly used for events, with chairs placed there often, should be hardscape. It’s not as if lawn can’t be put back there in the future. Lawn isn’t a heritage tree or rose shrub.
To be fair though, the photo makes it look pretty huge as an expanse of paved area.
JustJack23@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
A good representation of the old regimen, as unnatural as concrete, but at least trying to appear natural
heyoni@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s nature…just not “wild” nature.