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by t_mann 1399 days ago
covering more and more land in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impervious_surface is not a good idea either
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Generally solved by incentivizing large lush green lawns for single family housing in large tracts. The lawns have the added benefit of capturing carbon and increasing air quality.

Mandating one 18-hole golf course for every 2K people in municipalities would also create positive offsets to impervious surface and add to the benefit.

incentivizing lush greens in California? I don't live there, but the last thing I heard from there was quite the opposite