The main argument of The American Obsession with the Perfect Lawn article is that people hurt the environment for the sake of having good looking lawn. The text elaborates by comparing the use of a lawn mower to a car being driven for an equivalent of 93 miles. It also mentions that homeowners are negligent of the ecology of their lawn just the aesthetics. In other words, they don’t care about the life forms and a healthy diversity of their lawn, they just want it to look nice.
The American Obsession with the Perfect Lawn works well with the Coop commercial because both are spreading the message of Eco friendliness. The Coop Commercial showed it by giving little snippets of regions all over the world including the ones on the verge of destruction because of the state of the environment, such as the the Polar Ice Caps and the Ocean. The Coop video promotes renewable energy and their way to encourage by stating how the use of renewable energy will benefit everyone in the long run. On the other hand, The American Obsession with The Perfect Lawn just give details about the issue without proposing a solution.