Mow Less, Preach Less: gramados, vizinhos e campanhas ambientais (B2)
The perfect lawn is one of the strangest inheritances of suburban life. It demands water in August, chemicals in spring and a machine that wakes the whole street on Sunday morning, and it feeds almost nothing. Campaigns encouraging people to mow less have therefore been welcome, though their tone occasionally does them harm. Telling a retired man that his lawn is an ecological disgrace is unlikely to produce a meadow; it usually produces a sharper mower. What works better is smaller and less righteous. Leave one corner uncut. Plant three native shrubs that flower in different months. Keep the path tidy, so that the neighbours understand the difference between a wild patch and neglect. Gardens are social objects as well as ecological ones, and any campaign that forgets the first will lose the second.
Fonte: English for ALL (texto original).
O texto dirige sua crítica a certas campanhas ambientais por elas
- A) proporem mudanças caras demais para quem cuida de um jardim pequeno.
- B) adotarem um tom moralista que afasta as pessoas em vez de convencê-las.
- C) ignorarem que os gramados perfeitos consomem água e produtos químicos.
- D) defenderem que os moradores deixem o terreno inteiro sem qualquer corte.
- E) desprezarem o valor ecológico das plantas nativas nos quintais das casas.