>>1705255Aristocrats did it. Then the capitalist class that largely supplanted them copied it because it was "classy". Then the middle class got enough wealth they could copy it too. It's literally just a way of flexing that you are so rich, you can waste land and not bother with growing crops, but it's been so removed from its original context people now think it's normal.
>>1705307Ok? So we should holocaust the natural world because we might have to live closeish to other living things otherwise?
>>1705336Part of the reason destructive pests get so out of hand in human disturbed environments is *because* we disturb the environments. When you spray pesticides, you kill predator insects as well as the prey. When you remove snake habitat, rodents get out of control. When you kill off the native wildlife and landscape and replace it with foreign grasses and trees and structures, you get invasive pests. Where I live doesn't have a fruit tree for miles, but there's an unholy number of wasps around in summer specifically because they are provided a perfect environment, and any habitat for predators has been annihilated. But no, we couldn't let the shortgrass prairie reclaim the perfect green grass, that might lower (((property values))).
Ecology 101, fucking tard.
