Neil Tyson often conjectures that maybe aliens have concluded humans aren’t intelligent enough to contact. He’s probably referring to our capacity for war, but lawns may display our talent for fruitless carnage even better.
https://earther.com/lawns-are-an-ecological-disaster-1826070720
* hours * 40 million acres * biggest * family * billion * billion * billion * people * children * injuries * killed * participated * study * Sara Stein * best * study * $3.44 billion * vastly more threatened than honeybees * increased * wrote * declines * 580 * 40 automobiles driving * non-road gasoline emissions. * 10 times * 67 million * releasing compounds like nitrous oxide * $157 billion * million * acre feet * two-thirds * percent * percent * your * rebounding * states * programs * billion * exemption * departments