Social inquiry of Maria Gaidar.
This autumn, Muscovites began to contact our foundation, worried that all their autumn leaves had been collected and taken away.
Like this: “At night, they collected it, loaded it into black bags and took it away, can you imagine this?! What for? Do you know who needed our leaves? .. «
Where do they go? It turned out that everything is very simple — they began to buy them from cleaners, pay for the handed over leaves. The more leaves, the more money. So they quickly disappeared. It would seem that here it is, managerial success! There was a problem, no problem. There were leaves — no more leaves!
- Psychology of ECOlogy
I started looking at the leaves. And yes, indeed, there are none in Moscow. Not in the yards, not in the squares, not in the wastelands, nowhere… I immediately began to miss them, I really wanted to walk around them, rustle, stir them up with my feet and feel their rotten smell. This smell is most associated with my childhood. Here we go with my grandmother from kindergarten: she is in a hurry to go home, and I am still trying to find the most beautiful leaf to dry it in a book. Then school. School is, of course, leaves: the leaves of the first of September on the ruler, the leaves for the wall newspaper around the world, the leaves that we diligently collect with a rake on a school clean-up day, and then we can’t stand it and start jumping on this pile.
But I’ll be back: clean up all the fallen leaves or leave them on the ground? The opinions of experts, as always, diverged. Some argue that the leaves for plants are like a blanket and without them everything will freeze, in addition, the leaves rot and turn into fertilizer. Other experts refute this and argue that bugs live in the leaves, which are much more harmful and dangerous for plants than cold and lack of fertilizer.
- Megapolis: the exception as a rule
I don’t know which of them is right, but without the leaves the city began to look even more gray and cold, and we have one more gray and gloomy month in the year. I think this is a reason for psychologists, not agronomists, to start sounding the alarm.
I just want our leaves back!