Comment on The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement

• 3abas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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”.

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  • turtlesareneat@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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  • riskable@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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).

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    • absentbird@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      They never should have ripped the solar panels off the Whitehouse.

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• theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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  • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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  • elflakoinri@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Ugly and only heat, i do not see the better

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  • sthetic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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    • skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yeah, it’s not that he did it per se, it’s the idea that he probably did it because he’s a classless fat troll.

      Same with some of his policies; grand scheme of things if they were presented by most other people I’d have little objection, but because they’re motivated by greed, hate or narcissism I don’t want to give the twat an inch.

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