The village is preparing for Easter today. All around petrol is pouring into lawn mowers to get the grass cut to its roots before the long weekend.
As city residents abandon their urban wastelands and head for the coast for a different lifestyle, they bring their habits with them. The weekend ritual of using up unique carbon resources to cut grass in a small back yard becomes in the villages a half-day ceremony because there is more land and people have no concept of using it. The petrol engine solves everthing. The air fills with exhaust gas and noise until darkness puts a stop to it.
Those who can afford to live on the land have more lawn to remove. For them there is the "slasher". The countryside is now characterised by unproductive land use, consuming oil rather than agriculture.