Woods chips and hand weeding is an alternative. Concrete is carbon intense to produce; let’s stop using it for driveways and sidewalks. Alternatives!

Manual labor used to be applied to these things. One could argue the fossil fuel industry got us hooked to petrol solutions in search of a problem.

Look at us too addicted to our inventiveness to get our hands dirty, a little sweaty outside the air conditioned gym, or give up a grass lawn.