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Yes. Gas powered landscape equipment should be banned immediately.


For 10 years, my small but profitable maintenance company used hand
held battery powered equipment. We carried extra fully charged
batteries with us. The equipment did not harm our ears, irritate
clients/neighbors, cause lung damage due to the fumes, endanger our
environment, and the air just smelled better. The equipment was
light and powerful enough to do everything we needed except to blow
off heavy wet mowed grass or heavy wet soil. we used rakes, brooms,
and shovels for those tasks if necessary.

Our environment and our careers are in jeopardy because if it gets
too hot and dry for plants to survive, we will not have a landscape
industry. Currently, there are even desert plants that are dying
due to excessive heat and lack of minimal water.

Unless all of us are inconvenienced to slow the climate crisis,
even if it is expensive, we will have a planet on which we don't
want to live or on which we can not live.

Currently, not one major country on earth wants to spend the money
or be inconvenienced by changes that will enable the continued
existence of our children, grandchildren, and all of the children
on earth to live in the world as we know and love it.