I Might Prefer a Kaleyard to a Lawn

But while a kaleyard is more my style than a lawn, I think one has the right to own a lawn.

Why Your Beautiful Lawn Is now a Racist and Ecological Crime
By Edwin Benson
https://www.returntoorder.org/2019/08/why-your-beautiful-lawn-is-now-a-racist-and-ecological-crime/

Indeed, the target is private property, and all it represents. Think about the adage, “A man’s home is his castle.” That is more than a clever saying; it is a doctrine of English Common Law. It meant that the owner of a home, however modest, has the right to defend it against trespass. That defense includes usurpation at the hands of the government. The Constitution alludes to this idea by limiting the government’s power of eminent domain.

Now, it may be the case that things, normally falling under private property, can be forbidden because ecologically bad.

However, this is open to abuse. A year ago or so, Paris forbade heating with fireplaces connected to chimneys. This is, among other things an attack on the poor who may at times heat the fireplace by wood collected in woods or among fruit baskets, when regularly bought wood is not available.

Other heating methods involve dependence on big companies, public or private, but definitely not small business, mostly, even if you can theoretically still heat with large gas heaters, they too cost money, the gas cannopt be collected by going into the woods or watching market fairs for discarded wooden fruit baskets.

That said, fireplaces emit particles that are not too good for human health, and Paris is also limiting car use, in order to fight pollution.

However, the question with the lawn is not a question of emitting particles, and it would seem, lawns are some good things in fighting desertification. Perhaps not the ideally best thing, but good things even so. If Edwin Benson can be doubted on this one, how about looking at an expert in fighting desertification, namely Savory whom I referred to back here:

New blog on the kid : Planned Grazing, Mimicking Nature, More Livestock, Feeding People
https://nov9blogg9.blogspot.com/2019/06/planned-grazing-mimicking-nature-more.html

To his video which is here:

How to green the world's deserts and reverse claimate change | Allan Savory
TED | 4.III.2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpTHi7O66pI

If anything, one could forbid neighbourhoods imposing on each house owner to mowe the lawn low. A lawn with high grass is perhaps less good for mini-golf or crocket or pétanque (interest in these sports vary), but it is more like a prairie, and either way, it's not just the state, but also the neighbourhood, which should leave a person free among the things he owns.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Kremlin Bicêtre
St. Stephen of Hungary
2.IX.2019