Gardeners
By Josh Glazer
Almost every lawn in America is tended year round by legions of ‘gardeners’ who use countless numbers of leaf blowers, polluting the air, with constant noise pollution, and a huge use of fuel.
I believe rakes were invented for just such a purpose, and should be substituted for leaf blowers on account of their all around environmental pollution and waste of natural fuels.
Additionally, the use of leaf blowers has become overly used and even abused. Even the simplest job seems to ‘require’ the use of a leaf blower, when a small amount of leg work is all that is need, with a smart plan of how to do the needed job.
Furthermore, gardening itself, as a profession, is a blue collar field. By definition, a job of manual labor. Using hundreds of thousands of leaf blowers is not an acceptable social solution to a simple needed job / service of ‘gardening / landscaping’. A rake, some tarps, and some plastic containers would save an ENOURMOUS amount of fuel, and reduce air and noise pollution 50%, at least in the suburbs.
Thus, I propose a ban or strong regulation on the use of leaf blowers and other non-necessary fuel powered ‘gardening’ tools. Lawn mowers, also, are a problem to be dealt with, in the near future, but are not nearly as abused.
One last point: Of every pundit that blabs about pollution, what percentage have gardeners taking care of their lawns with leaf blowers? Is it possible that every single person in the media is a complete hypocrite? According to the history of intellectuals – Yes.
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