Lawn care

There is a weather man on the local TV that is very concerned about climate change. He lives in the burbs where all the lots are two acres or more and there are no ugly wind mills or solar panels and god forbid a dandelion should pop up. Most of these homes have sprinklers. Every weekend in the United States, fifty-four million Americans mow their lawns, which uses eight-hundred million gallons of gas per year. That is as much as 2 million cars. Add to that the amount of water, fertilizers and herbicides and all of this is carried into the rivers and lakes. Talking about climate change like so many other issues is all about what the other guy should do to tackle the problem. At one time I worked in a lab at a wastewater treatment plant and every spring our microbes would bloom as this years supply of lawn chemicals washed into the plant and then into the river.