Lawns are *incredibly* resource intensive. It's recommended to water an inch a week (or cover your lawn with tuna cans, fill each one). By one estimate we could use up to 60 million acre-FEET/year (US farmland uses ~89). But people overwater + lot of water runs off or evaporates.
On #WorldTurtleDay I'm urging you to do something about your plastic use and about pollution in your area.
I also want to share how I think of these kinds of problems.
First I want to address something. When I talk about small actions we can take, I often get some variation of these responses:
-there's so much pollution, or
-it's going to take systemic change to get rid of [problem],
-nothing I do makes a difference.
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Feb 19, 2018 • 21 tweets • 6 min read
I started studying Russian in high school. I thought it was cool it was even offered, and everybody else was studying Spanish or French. And it was a fantastic, challenging language, taught by a fun teacher.
It was years after the Cold War. I had no idea we'd have another.
I remember frequently being made fun of as a communist for studying Russian, and just rolled with it. Never mind the Cold War was over, and Russia was already reeling from the collapse and US-influenced rapid deregulation/privatization. From... capitalism? pastemagazine.com/articles/2018/…
