Good job at desert landscaping. No grass here at Dean's.
Posted on 08/07/2022 8:38:11 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
In Las Vegas, Nevada, it's come to this: climate change has helped make water ever more scarce, so under a new Nevada law, the grass has got to go. "When we look at outdoor water use in Southern Nevada, landscaping far and away is the largest water user, and of that, it's grass," said Bronson Mack of the Las Vegas Water Authority.
The city's already pulled up about four million square feet of grass on public property so far this year, because thirsty green parkways are something they just can't afford anymore. "The grass that you see behind me is not long for this world," Mack told correspondent Tracy Smith. "In fact, within the next couple of months to a year, this grass will be completely eliminated, and it'll be replaced with drip-irrigated trees and plants."
And every drip counts. So, water waste investigators (also known as water cops) patrol the neighborhoods, taking note of who's watering when, and how much of that water goes down the drain.
But it seems there are still those who could use convincing that climate change has become a climate emergency.
Last spring a group of scientists chained themselves to a Los Angeles bank in protest over the lack of action. "We're going to lose everything, and we're not joking," said one protester, Dr. Peter Kalmus. "We're not lying, we're not exaggerating. This is so bad, everyone."
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“We live in a new home in Vegas purchased in 2019 and there’s no grass. It’s a desert motif; sand, plants and rocks. No grass to water, no grass to mow. And that’s OK with me.”
It’s the same here in Prescott Valley although we’re not in the desert and the aquifers are 99.9% full. I like it because it means more leisure time for me. And the local golf courses uses reclaimed water.
Right because the Dust Bowl never happened
California along with the rest of the west has had severe drought years about once every eleven years
Rationing etc all the rage
Meanwhile, "the planet" is NOT at risk, and if it were, the idiocy they propose is of no help.
They had grass?
Good place to buy mowers cheap.
I was in Phoenix a few weeks ago, one thing I learned is, desert living is not for me.
I just take it that everything is climate change just like everyone had AIDS. :)
I have just moved from the Phoenix valley to coastal North Carolina. The humidity and high dew point coupled with the 95 degree weather is pretty tough here in NC. The worst for me is east Texas (Canton or Yantis for example just west of Shreveport). Their temps are even higher with high humidity.
My dad worked with Wernher von Braun (the rocket scientist). Once he came home after a social visit to Von Braun’s home and reported that the good doctor had torn out all of the landscaping and concreted it over. Then he painted everything green.
Huh. And yet the local news media in Kentucky are blaming the flooding here this year on the same phenomenon of climate change.
Just like the warm, wet “brown Christmases” that we were experiencing in the early 2000s was due to climate change, even though the last several years we have started to see decent snowfalls again every winter. That shouldn’t be happening if the climate pod people were right, but it is.
If human-caused climate change explains everything, then it explains nothing. Period.
In the words of the late, great, Sam Kinison,
“YOU LIVE IN A F#^KING DESERT”!
One proclaimed, "There is no God! I have gotten some truly evil people off completely free without any repercussions". With that said he stood up atop the motor and shouted, "If there is a God, now is your chance". Lightning struck the top of his head and killed him.
It is a true story. I wish I'd saved that printout.
I don't get it unless the grass is being irrigated by watering systems. If that's the case, just stop watering them.....
Good job at desert landscaping. No grass here at Dean's.
Of course it’s ‘climate change’. What else?
Why waste energy pulling up grass? If there is no water, it will disappear in no time. With zero effort.
Dean did not like mowing the grass, he was on the golf course.
“How come they never chain themselves to John Kerry’s jet?”
^— This.
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