When I lived in Barrow, I had a fairly self-righteous attitude about people who despoiled our earth for their own selfish purposes. That attitude cast a pretty wide net from the communist leaders of Eastern Europe who allowed so much of their earth to be polluted beyond human comprehension to people who used deadly weed killers on their lawns and poisoned the earth.
Of course in Barrow the people had a long cultural tradition of protecting and preserving their land for their children and grandchildren. Besides which, it’s not as though there were thriving lawns that needed protection from unwanted