Hell yeah, Crime Pays but Botany doesn't is one of the best youtubers
Especially with his recent series targeting bad landscaping, he's precisely the kind of plant scientist I'm trying to become. There are plenty of right-wingers who are angry about plants in bad and unscientific ways, but there aren't enough left-wingers angrily advocating for plants in good ways with scientific grounding. It's such an easy in-road for us in greater urbanism advocacy.
Oh, absolutely. His "Spiritually Depraved and Misery-Inducing Landscapes of North America" series is so fucking cathartic as someone who deeply hates American lawn culture.
i'd never heard of him until yt started recommending those videos but i'm a fan now
He published a book, Concrete Botany: The Ecology of Plants in the Age of Human Disturbance. The hard covers just started shipping. I haven’t had a chance to actually start reading my copy yet, but it looks good in my giant stack of books to read.
Before seeing anything other than the title I was like "this is Crime Pays isn't it" and of course it is. Dude is an absolute gem
Thats home to me.
I love the south Texas scrub. I've spent a large portion of my life lucky enough to be able to roam it. Even gotten to hunt peyote there multiple times. It really is ugly to most but I think it's beautiful. Thanks for posting this it didn't show up in my feed despite other crimepays vids showing up.
I'm jealous! I haven't been able to explore most of Colorado's arid ecosystems yet, but they're such a nice contrast to how I view the mountains. In the Rockies you can piss in a circle and hit ten of the most beautiful things you've ever seen. There's so much to look at that 90% of it doesn't stand out. Focusing on one nice flower misses the Ansel Adams nonsense going on behind it. In the arid regions I have visited, individual plants and features take on a lot more significance. Exploring that landscape in slow motion gives me a better sense of the ecosystem than I get from a hike to a vista.
I donated to that and still need to make my trip out there. They're trying to get a parking lot and pit toilet in first.
I really want to be the first to put some trails on openstreetmap 
Ayyyy Joeyyyy!
That guy is one of the titans of the world. Glad to see him getting more recognition.
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