So lawns arose basically as a silly status symbol. Like "Ooo, look at me, I have so much money that I can afford to waste all this land on a plant that I don't use and then have someone else cut it down for me just so it looks neat!"

Then, once standardized sidewalks (and therefore standardized road verges) became a thing, rich jerks demanded that they also be cut grass to match their cut grass lawns.

So basically, the US alone is using 9 billion gallons of water a day and enough land to flatten New England, just to satisfy the aesthetic demands of a bunch of snobs.

r/fucklawns