Apolitical thinking

But as we shall see, many of us do take risky actions with a vague trust (driven by somewhat apolitical thinking) that companies and service providers would not knowingly put them at risk. Even assuming so critical a configuration of culture and economy as explored above, where lawn culture may be perpetuated to serve narrow economic interests, it is indeed hard to imagine a system in which an economy would inflict actual hazards upon the consumers and environments upon whom it depends for survival. 

A final problem in apolitical thinking about ecology takes the form of common assumptions about the environment itself. It is quite normal for most of us to think about nature as something that is both outside the city and as something, even where it is present, that is passively molded by human action. 

For understanding the lawn, this apolitical way of thinking has several implications. First, it suggests that people freely choose to have, maintain, and care... 

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