Great article, horrible title
Botanical Sexism Cultivates Home-Grown Allergies
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#32The only reason why we don't plant tons of edible fruit trees in city parks is because they would make a huge mess and attract rodents. But now that we're going to have self-driving robots that can clean up after the trees by the time they're old enough to produce fruit, there really isn't any reason why our park trees shouldn't be producing food for us.
> because they would make a huge mess and attract rodents
So what? more for cats. This is just a cultural excuse. We don't need to do what is more easy or convenient for the gardener or every public space would be under a layer of green concrete now.
> there really isn't any reason why our park trees shouldn't be producing food for us.
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#33The only reason why we don't plant tons of edible fruit trees in city parks is because they would make a huge mess and attract rodents. But now that we're going to have self-driving robots that can clean up after the trees by the time they're old enough to produce fruit, there really isn't any reason why our park trees shouldn't be producing food for us.
> ...there really isn't any reason why our park trees shouldn't be producing food for us. The article does address that notion -- trees are really good at capturing pollution, and a good amount of that pollution ends up in their fruit. Which sucks. I grew up foraging urban food, and I'll still pick and eat berries and stonefruits because they're too delicious to pass up, but it seems irresponsible for governments to…
> trees are really good at capturing pollution, and a good amount of that pollution ends up in their fruit
Must admit that this is a good reason against.
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#34To use male trees in parks (when possible) is a technical choice, totally unrelated with sexism. To link all things with female opression is unhealthy and a mess leading to absurd dead ends.
Cities are full of "male symbols" in form of phallic shaped towers and square high buildings. Should we remove all of them and start building round hemispheric houses instead? Should we remove only the 50% of skyscrapers?
The term botanical sexism is unfair for garden designers (not always men) and creates a non-existent problem
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#35To use male trees in parks (when possible) is a technical choice, totally unrelated with sexism. To link all things with female opression is unhealthy and a mess leading to absurd dead ends. Cities are full of "male symbols" in form of phallic shaped towers and square high buildings. Should we remove all of them and start building round hemispheric houses instead? Should we remove only the 50% of skyscrapers? The ter…
I think you missed the point of the article.
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#36To use male trees in parks (when possible) is a technical choice, totally unrelated with sexism. To link all things with female opression is unhealthy and a mess leading to absurd dead ends. Cities are full of "male symbols" in form of phallic shaped towers and square high buildings. Should we remove all of them and start building round hemispheric houses instead? Should we remove only the 50% of skyscrapers? The ter…
I think you missed the point of the article.
Maybe the writer should have used a better title then. Less clickbaity and annoying. That some pollens can trigger allergies when combined with diesel particles is not exactly breaking news.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
What? How could you think this is remotely true. It's international news when a commercial aircraft crashes. Birds, not so much.
Observer fallacy, though I’m kind of confused why I’ve never personally seen it happen. I’ve seem one window strike but never a ground strike.
If you want to observe birds there are some great nest cams all over the world.
The first days/weeks/months of flying is not perfect. A large predatory bird needs a lot of training and exercise. Wildlife rehabilitation is an other good source to hear about the work involved in getting wild birds to fly.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
And birds are about 160 million years old, but they can't fly as high or as fast as airplanes. Evolution doesn't plan ahead, so it easily gets stuck in local maxima.
Birds seem to fall out of the sky a lot less often. Could be the same is true for pollen. I don’t know if I agree with the guy, but I think he’s right to encourage more science time and money spent on it.
I don't know about that. A good number of them end up dead below my windows each year.