It’s not really autumn yet, but the brown leaves are already here. And with it the leaf blowers. But is it really faster than calculating? And what is the ecological balance of the blowing action?
By Rolf Herbert Peters
You are back. I can hear them behind the hedges. One after the other howls in the neighboring gardens: leaf blowers and vacuums. At that moment it is clear: the coffee table on the terrace in the October sun is over. I think back to my childhood, when starfighters thundered out of nowhere over our garden during the autumn manoeuvres. Their noise scared the hell out of us.