One of the earlier post got me thinking. Just what dose a lawn mower do to our environment. I go through a case of grease in a season. Just where dose all this grease go to. I would think it would just flake out onto our lawns and end up in our drinking water supply. The same with our oil and exhaust fumes that go's into our air we breath. I know its a small amount compared to the car and trucks of the world. I have a small water stream that flows pass my side lawn and I have seen this black sludge form on the surface at times and often wondered what it comes from. Yes it takes money to find a solution to fix this but I is a good investment. I am a old man and will be gone in a few more short years but sure would good to have my future children to enjoy this world.
Sleep easy in your bed.
Oil is a natural product and as a natural product nature can handle it , IN SMALL AMOUNTS. Eventually bacteria will break it down and turn it into fertilizer.
As far as the enviroment is concerned the most damage you can do is to cut down all of the trees and bushes and grow a monoculture of grass.
So yes while the CO2 is not good nore are all of the fumes that come off the tools you use to cut your grass, it is the grass itself that does the greatest amount of damage.
Go to any nature reserve and try to find 1 sq yard of ground with only 1 type of plant growing in it.
We had a brilliant researcher who worked out you can grow fungus in heavy oil contaminated ground.
Cattle can feed on this fungus and when it stops growing the soil is rehabilated.
He got laughed out because we knew better, you had to put heavy detergents on oil contaminated ground, dig it all up wash the detergents out , treat the detergent rinse water to concentrate it, then burn it off at well over 1500 deg C and finally use the ash in concrete to protect us .
Really ?
Go find an old gas station.
All the ground around it we will call "polluted beyond use" the greenies will list all of the highly toxic heavy metals and how dangerious it is .
They will want it concreted over, the top soil removed to be chemically treated to remove all the toxic products ( that will end up in a toxic waste dump ) .
However there will be grasses growing in the cracks in the concrete forecourt where all the "HIGHLY TOXIC FUEL " was spilled for 50+ years shrubs will start growing where the oil tanks were and where 100,000,000 gallons of oil slowly dripped out of the taps or got spilled when the attendant was watching a well turned ankle & not the oil in the bottle.
One of the greatest people who ever lived Bill Mollison, termed the "Global Gardiner" defined pollution as a resource going to waste.
he was one of the rare people who could look at and understand the enviroment as a complete unit rather than micro analysing it , one plant, insect , bacteria at a time.
The movement he set in place Permaculture, was considered so dangerious he was kicked out of most of the 3rd world countries because it went against the grain of the big argo companies like Monsanto.
Charities hated him because he used the resources of the actual villagers to lift them out of subservecy and make them self supporting. That makes them hard to control & governments both in 3rd & 1st world countries hate that.