waitress there are a lot of good, legitimate ecological issues with lawns and to some extent certain kinds of landscaping. whoops going on a big tangent, guess this will be the whole post: I haven't thought about it in a long time but the sustainability model is kinda silly tho, it's consumer-grade to begin with and imo condescends to us dumb dirty-ass peasants who prolly only need to see infographics to believe something if the colors are nice enough. it can maybe be useful if applied to things that already have a widely-understood value or lack thereof, like cars, and it's especially useful when applied to things that are already numbers-based reductions of life, like factory farming.
it's less useful when people in my profession ruthlessly and indiscriminately apply it to more abstract or less quantifiable things, like how a design makes you feel. like there's a certain utility to be sure, and yeah this is stream of consciousness and I will try to do better, it's just within the profession of landscape architecture it's such a reduction that is currently over-emphasized as part of the profession's attempt to garner more pop appeal and widely-appreciated Value within a capitalist-apologist Democrat kind of framework, like a 'woke capitalism' framework. which is understandable because it's the only place where there's some degree of power to get shit done, and the dirty truth of my profession is that no matter how much they teach you in school about poverty and food deserts and disenfranchised communities and ecology and saving humans and the world and reuniting everyone with nature, we're still a service industry for the wealthy and powerful and maybe, sometimes if we're lucky, we cab dig into one or two of our pet issues on a project and have a positive effect on some facet of society. and when it fucking works it's the absolute best imo. you talk to an old grandma, perched upon a boulder at the highest point at the top of the ADA-accessible spiral ramp in the little public park in the middle of the city, and she tells you her grandkid's names as they play in the stream that was a major fucking hassle to get through with the city and actually inexplicably through it all turned out really nice, and she's beaming ear to ear the whole time telling you she almost never gets to leave the city and never imagined she'd see anything like this. that's great, that will keep you going for a few months at least! but whoops buuuuuuuuuuuurp fart, the stream is not sustainable and needs to be run by a pump and thru a filtration system, don't you fucking get it??? there are people without anywhere to live and crushing medical problems and their family at the end of their rope struggling to help them, but people's tax dollars in part pay for this bullshit??? nothing is allowed to be good under capitalism by its own goddamn fucking self-replicating rules DO YOU FUCKING UNDERSTAND YOU SCUM nothing is good or will ever be allowed to be good, you work for money alone and you chose the dumbest fucking job to do it dumbass no one outside the profession even knows what the fuck it is.
fascists’ somewhat successful deployment of "human biodiversity" as part of an attempt to legitimize fundamentally racist ideas!!!
lmao goddamn these people are so fucking dumb. you could immediately think of the next obvious bullshit stance they could have and it will still take their collective brainpower 10 years to get to it on their own, working on it every fucking day on telegram between making posts they deeply, earnestly believe are totally covert on reddit and youtube. like on youtube today I saw yet another obvious numerical code for white supremacy!! ya still doing that, can't think of anything better and somehow it's still fun and interesting to them
I haven't read any of the stuff you've mentioned but it sounds interesting at least! ain't too proud anymore to say I struggle with heady political theory sometimes so maybe the mars trilogy is more up my alley.