The New Yorker Article

My mother-in-law sent the New Yorker with the controversial cover, with a note to check out page 82. Lots of gems, including this:

"...the risks of the chemical lawn are not confined to the people who own the lawns, or the the creatures that try to live in them. Rain and irrigation carry synthetic fertilizers into streams and lakes, where the excess nutrients contribute to algae blooms that, in turn, produce aquatic 'dead zones.'"

and this:

"...the American lawn now represents a serious civic problem. That the space devoted to it continues to grow—and that more and more water and chemicals and fertilizer are devoted to its upkeep—doesn’t prove that we care so much as that we are careless."