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A New York Times Valentine’s Day<\/a> opinion piece discouraged flower giving for the sake of the environment because while the “massive cut-flower industry \u2014 valued at $34 billion in 2019 \u2014 isn\u2019t the most environmentally criminal of all commercial enterprises \u2026 it\u2019s far from benign.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Fortunately, there are many ways to say, \u2018I love you\u2019 that don\u2019t also say, \u2018Eh, I don\u2019t really care that much about the planet,'” Margaret Renkl, a contributing Opinion writer states in her article, “I Love You, Too, but Let\u2019s Skip the Roses.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m a big fan of love letters and walks in the moonlight, myself,” she added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She admitted the news “may be engendering a certain amount of despair,” and pondered if there is “anything left that we\u2019re allowed to view with unalloyed joy? If not a bouquet of bright flowers in the dead of February, then what?”<\/p>\n

Instead of flowers from Mother Earth, Renkl suggests paper flowers if you are set on giving flowers or even a “domestic houseplant,” but she warned that option still has similar problems to cut flowers like pesticides, water use and transportation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

WHO IS ST. VALENTINE AND HOW IS HE RELATED TO VALENTINE’S DAY?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“But there\u2019s still a big difference between domestically grown houseplants and imported flowers, and not just in the relative carbon costs of transportation,” she added. “Houseplants aren\u2019t discarded two days after Valentine\u2019s Day.”<\/p>\n

HOW DID VALENTINE’S DAY BECOME A HUGE COMMERCIAL HOLIDAY?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Renkl argued that “the very best environmental alternative to a bouquet of imported flowers probably isn\u2019t a potted plant or even paper flowers,” but a local flower farm that uses regenerative farming principles.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She even promotes a flower Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), where “Customers provide the farmer with a reliable source of income, and the farmer provides a reliable source of fresh, in-season flowers.”<\/p>\n

ZOOS CONTINUE VALENTINE’S DAY TRADITION OF NAMING COCKROACHES, ANIMALS AFTER EXES AND LOVED ONES<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

While it “might cost a little more” and “it\u2019s easier to grab a plastic-wrapped bouquet from the grocery store,” it takes more thought and planning “to send flowers \u2014 or plants and paper flowers \u2014 another way.”<\/p>\n

“If you really need to save money or time, it\u2019s a lot faster and a lot cheaper to write a heartfelt love letter and go for a walk in the moonlight,” she concluded. “But if you want to give your beloved a botanical gift, why not make it a gift to the planet, too?”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/valentines-day-flowers-discouraged-environment-concerns-consider-paper-flowers <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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