Iconoclast
I noticed it too. The company I currently work at let two big lawns grow out this year. At first I was thinking it was just another way to save money for them, but then I asked around a bit and someone revealed to me it was a conscious decision for the environment.
The company is damaging for the environment in a lot of other ways sadly, but I was still happy to see this shift to consider the environment more.
Looks so nice and a relaxing sight too, makes me wish I had a garden. Maybe some day I can do the same.
I‘m using both Lemmy and kbin in my browser just fine. Though I‘d like to use a nice iPhone app eventually, it‘s not strictly necessary for me to enjoy browsing and posting.
This could have been an email.
Austria, yes, water is fine like that I would even drink it in the shower without issue. What is an issue is this habit once made for a bad time in Egypt where I didn‘t drink tap water (I was warned), but I mindlessly used it for brushing teeth and that probably ruined my last few days there.
It is truly absurd. The media (especially cheap anger tabloids) are making them out to be villains to the point they are being attacked.
Since I deal with absurdness by laughing, I want to share a funny article with you a satirical press wrote about this (climate activists being called criminal organisation and treated like terrorists). It‘s in German, but I will translate to make it easier.
https://www.der-postillon.com/2023/05/lg-anschlag.html?m=1
Title: “Another Last Generation terrorist attack: 34 light and 5 severely delayed”
Berlin (dpo) - The terrorist organization Last Generation has struck again: In a serious attack on road traffic, 34 people were slightly delayed and 5 severely delayed in Berlin today. Only through courageous intervention by the police could worse delays be prevented.
Around 9 o’clock in the morning, the terrorists launched their cowardly attack by sticking themselves to a pedestrian crossing in Berlin-Charlottenburg. Their unsuspecting victims had no chance: Within seconds they were stuck in a traffic jam that got worse every minute.
“I can never get these pictures out of my head again,” describes a still visibly shocked eyewitness. “It was terrible! Everywhere the bright red heads of the late ones. When I close my eyes, I still hear their angry screams.”
Only after 15 agonizing minutes does the police finally arrive. The officials manage to remove the extremists from the road with the help of solvents and with the courageous use of pain attacks. “Fortunately, I was still able to twist the wrist of a terrorist while carrying her away,” reports a policeman. “I can’t imagine what would have happened if I had just carried her off the street normally!”
In the meantime, a crowd has gathered at the crime scene, which commemorates the late. Wreaths are laid down, songs are occasionally sounded. They are pictures that were no longer thought possible in Germany - pictures from a country heavily marked by climate terrorism.
I definitely do not want to… I‘d rather die, sorry. To each their own, but if everything else became unaffordable and I‘d be left with bugs, you‘ll find me smuggling veggies and growing them in the city parks, or on company properties or wherever I can find space.
Yeah sorry I got a bit emotional, I‘m just grossed out by bugs a lot, including the popular sea ones. Though I guess if they are in a powder I wouldn‘t mind as an additive.
It‘s mostly for me the issue that a lot of right wingers are also using these sort of articles to push the “the left wants to force us to eat bugs” narrative, which is untrue (there is no force at all), but I wouldn‘t actually put it past some state‘s politicians to go like “let them eat bugs” as a response to rising food prices either.
In which case I would like to respond by aggressively planting vegetables.
Fair question and don’t worry it doesn‘t bother me. I guess it‘s wrong, not like I‘m proud of my phobia or something, but I just don‘t want them near me and I definitely do not want to eat them. I also don‘t want to exterminate them or anything though, I recognise bugs are important to the ecosystem (more important than many animals people hold as pets or even humans tbh who damage it), but that doesn‘t mean I like them or want them near me. Maybe with a bit of exposure therapy I could be less triggered by them too, but just mentally thinking of their importance doesn‘t really change that for me.
If I had a garden maybe then my perspective would actually change now that I think of it, I still wouldn‘t want them in my room at all and still use bug nets, but having them live in the garden and be more often exposed to them that way, a sort of safe co-existence, I think I would grow tougher. It‘s just unlikely to ever happen as I‘m a poor renting city dweller who doesn‘t have ambition to grind for a mortgage.
I‘m also all for the biodiversity though in the cities, due to bugs I stay out of these areas (last time I walked in tall grass I had two ticks and they are dangerous here and I was lax on vaccinations luckily nothing happened), but I like that they can live in those spaces more due to environmentalist efforts.