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Pretty sure the green stuff is alive, actually.
It is and you're right, but there point op was making (perhaps not very well) is that a plain monoculture grass field is about as biodiverse as a car park. In order to be a sustainable ecological habitat for life more is needed than just grass.
Water, trees, bushes, flowering plants etc. These provide shade, places to nest and food that is needed for life to thrive.
A field is essentially an ecological wasteland.
Its crazy how walking into a corn field can feel like a Martian wasteland on the surface
It needs to be native plants too. Just letting whatever grow on the grass often ends up being roadside weeds and invasive species, which is more diverse than just grass but pales in comparison to a truly naturalized praire or woodland.
Fields are made to only maintain life for what is grown on it. There is very little life there besides the plants. Biodiversity wise, they could as well be parking lots. They just look like nature, because, as you say, they are green.
Even that, takes nature away. Birds that naturally nest on flat ground, can't breed there any more, because moderns crops grow faster than they can grow their chicks.
Like, I get what you're saying if it comes to lawns. But I know no field like the above one where nothing but ode type of grass grows. All the fields I know have multiple kinds of grass.
And the animals will come to that kind of field.