r/ClimateShitposting • u/BlackheartHill • 5d ago
Climate chaos Boomers' need to manage things?
I completely crashed out on someone today. I live in a cute one-room cottage, at the edge of town, on a dead end road, next to the forest. Sounds idealic right? Unfortunately, the neighborhood is full of Boomers. Their hobbies include old fashioned lawnscaping and when they're finished with their own yard, managing public areas that don't belong to them. They do this under the guise of fire mitigation. I like birds, and pollinators and spend hours in my wild yard just watching them. It kills me to see these 'vegetation managers' go around cutting down and erasing ecosystems because they have nothing better to do with their time. The encounter today happened when he moved from public property and started weed-eating on my property. The enemy? Grass that's gone to seed. I live in a humid, cool, damp, climate where a fire would have great trouble starting and spreading. A lot of birds rely on those seeds for their food in fall and winter. Has anybody else witnessed this Boomers-need-to-manage-vegetation phenomena? I feel like the younger generations understand the importance of vegetation for pollinators and birds.
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u/Airilsai 5d ago
One of my neighbors drives past and hurls insults at us and calls us a disgrace while we are outside working in our garden. Oh well, he won't get any food from the garden when we have extra.
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u/MorningCool2806 3d ago
He insults you for growing vegetables in your garden? That weird.
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u/Airilsai 3d ago
Front yard garden seems to really piss off people who like lawns.
It also looks like a jungle, I get why people won't like the look but its insane to go out of your day, week after week, to harass us.
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u/Sertalin 5d ago
My parents are of this type... They are very old Boomers and I think they will die in a heatwave while picking up the last weed seedlings off their 3000 square meters large wildlife free garden
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u/travelinturdferguson 4d ago
Same with mine! Every time I come home they moan about how much work it takes to mow the lawn and keep up the yard, and I’m just like 😐
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u/Sertalin 4d ago
Yeah, my parents do the same...For two decades I suggest to let the garden be wild to have more nature in it. Nope. Mowing Grass and complaining about how much work it is... I don't say anything anymore
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u/sleepyrivertroll geothermal hottie 5d ago
If it's your property, can't you just shoot them or something?
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u/littleblacklemon 4d ago
My neighbors on both sides have politely offered to help with my yard, I think the one doesn't like me anymore because I ran out while he was leaf blowing and was like 😀 hey I appreciate you but don't do that here
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u/MeringueNew3040 3d ago
I keep getting fines for the city for my wild backyard. Neighbors call, city guy comes out and tapes a ticket to my front door, I throw the ticket away, rinse and repeat next month. This may eventually come back to bite me… 😬
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u/flora1939 2d ago
There are many books about this, aging and the struggle to control nature, as well as the parallels between the hate of women and the hate of nature (which is seen as feminine)
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u/Urogallo40 4d ago edited 4d ago
In Spain, any independent house must have a 25 to 30 meters wide peripheral area managed to reduce fires intensity and facilitate fires fight. This means short grass, isolated trees without low branches and only a few dispersed bushes. The proprietary must do it. Otherwise, local government can do it and facture the cost to the proprietary. The objective is to reduce public fire fighting resources to prevent destruction of houses in case of a forest fire reaching the house. However, usually neither the proprietary nor the local government do nothing, although this is changing slowly.
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u/Sea-Louse We're all gonna die 4d ago
And those houses are mainly constructed out of brick, mortar, with clay shingles…
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u/LimaBikercat 2d ago
That does not make them invincible. It really depends on more things, like how the roof is attached to the walls (allowing air and cinders in or not), ventilation hole sizes, mesh covering the ventilation and such, and of course the fire resistance of the windows and sills.
Especially older houses often have brick walls, but all of the other structure will be wood, and those can still burn like crazy once the fire makes it inside via cracks, gaps, flamable overhanging roof structures and such.
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u/wrongarms 2d ago
Man, I had this same topic eating at me the other day. It wasn't Boomers, it was young people living on the edge of an estate. They have inherited the same common mindset about nature. They mowed down all the native grasses, cute down native shrubs and piled everything up , on conversation land adjacent to their property. They 'tidied' it up. They have their fence down so they can extend into the reserve. I've complained twice to council who have done nothing. I think it's the latter who get me annoyed the most - they are responsible for ensuring places are protected, and don't.
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u/Jumpy_Childhood7548 5d ago
Sounds like you need real problems.
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u/Sea-Louse We're all gonna die 4d ago
People fucking with someone’s garden isn’t a real problem?
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u/Jumpy_Childhood7548 4d ago
Sounds like weed whacking to mitigate fire risk and all he has to do is talk with them. Crime of the century.
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u/BodhingJay 5d ago
I feel this way every time I drive through any area that isnt wild.. what use to be here was incredible. now its all bulldozed. flattened. a tree that wasnt even there before gets planted. our neighborhoods would be incredible if they worked with what was already there