There were environmental arguments presented against stacking rocks, and there is nothing lost to an individual by not stacking rocks. There is no hunger or suffering involved by abstaining from that, but the counterpoint was, apparently, "DONT TELL ME WHAT TO DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO."
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Because of a previous personal struggle session with related issues, I wish "leafblower by necessity" was the chosen term. :sicko-wistful:
Leafblowers are a bane upon society and existence and should be used as a slur for environmental destroyers
LET ME TELL YOU HOW.MUCH I HAVE COME TO HATE since paying too much for rent in a neighborhood where the landlords all underpay workers to run leafblowers all goddamn day
Not to mention the secondhand exposure to a shit ton of chemicals the workers and people walking by are exposed to just to move leaves around, fucking insanity just let them decompose.
A rake works better at the intended purpose and doesn't just move the problem around with added pollution, too.
I swear there's also reverse electric leafblowers that suck up leaves and mulch them? Like in China and Singapore I swear I've seen them mentioned or I'm just having a Mandela induced brain aneurysm...
They exist, I have one
I don't know. I know electric leaf blowers are a thing.
Still, rakes are cheap and do most leaf blowey jobs fine.
Truth rakes are better or just letting leaf cover occur when it's not interfering with anything (delende est lawns and lawn culture).
Is there really any difference between running a leaf lower and revving your engine through a dense residential neighborhood?
Turns out there is: leaf blowers are the fucking Devil.
Tldr of all the summarized research articles from the meta-article is that a leaf blower running for one hour equals a car driving 100 miles, the gas and oil mixture used is toxic as fuck, they produce an ungodly amount of pollution that actually can fuck up the ozone layer both in manufacturing of them and in running them (fun fact: summertime ozone levels have exceeded federal-based health standards every year since the passage of the Clean Air Act because of this bullshit). Also from personal experience hey cause noise disruption for any remaining wildlife within an area and fuck up sleep patterns (circadian rythms).
Tldr of Tldr: They are machines of Satan.
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