Preferring Perfect Lawns And A Filthy Ocean

     Here is the story of one man, one among millions, in pursuit of the perfect lawn. The lawn has to be perfect, so he makes sure it bears a heavy load of pesticides (there can be no ants on his property), fertilizers, and water. No matter how low the regional water table might go, he makes sure his lawn gets watered.
      All the chemicals, pesticides and fertilizers he applies ends up washed into the nearby ocean by the constant watering and sprinkling, or by rain itself. Cumulatively, all these perfect lawns, with their heavy chemical, pesticide and fertilizer load poison the oceans, creating dead zones and toxicity that damages fish and other marine life, birds, and ultimately humans.
        It is a sad way to live in which private property and private lawns have to be perfect, no matter how much this contaminates public lands and waters. Life on earth depends on healthy oceans, not perfect lawns.
        The oceans are dying from death by a thousand cuts. Some cuts are far worse than others (think plastics, Styrofoam and other non biodegradable waste flowing into the oceans by thousands of tons daily).
         The perfectly avoidable cut by chemical, pesticide and fertilizer poisoning continues to be ignored. What is wrong with a more natural, less than perfect lawn when it means healthier lands, lakes, oceans and all waters?