“To thrive, Kentucky bluegrass often requires fertilizer and pesticides and extensive watering and it cannot be eaten or used for anything except walking and playing on. In short, the U.S.’s most abundant and labor intensive crop is pure, unadulterated luxury.”

“There are around 128,000 square kilometers of lawn in the U.S., greater than the size of Ohio, or the entire nation of Italy. About a third of all residential water use in the U.S.—clean, drinkable water—is used to water lawns…”