Comment on Countries across the world use more land for golf courses than wind or solar energy

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• Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I like golf, get outside spend time in nature. Basically a big park with trees and water.

  Let’s compare land use of car parks to solar or wind.

  The elitist community of golf can fuck off though.

  Let me have my beers and my hitting sticks

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  • Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    A park with very limited capacity and that almost always requires the destruction of the natural landscape.

    Golf is elitist by nature as the courses require a ton of maintenance to keep them from going to there natural state, which costs money, and that cost is split among a small amount of people that can occupy the course at any given time without causing traffic. Combine that with the equipment costs and that filters out most lower income people.

    If courses were turned into parks and left to nature far more people could enjoy them as they wouldn’t have to pay or worry about getting hit with a ball because they set there picnic up in the wrong meadow.

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    • lumpybag@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Sure but that’s a local issue, many communities have parks and golf courses… This article is arguing to remove golf courses in favor of solar or wind farms because they use a lot of space. It doesn’t even examine the impacts of putting a utility grade power farm in the middle of a community because the argument would breakdown immediately.

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      • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Parks and golf courses are all world of difference lol.

        Parka have tons of trees, different species of geasses big and small, some open areas, playground for kids, small fields for football or something. Open to the public, 3rd spaces for kids and teens, people exercising and running and walking through it.

        Golf courses you have to pay to get in, not open to the public, a monoculture of imported grass, maybe some trees on the edges or between holes, kids and teens are not allowed, uses more space that the community isn’t allowed in, etc…

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      • Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        We come put windfarms on golf courses

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  • Buckshot@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The town i used to live in, population 180,000, has a big park right outside the centre. It’s got a lake, open grass, a small wood. It’s a very nice park. Always busy.

    The west edge is bordered by a 7ft wire fence and beyond it is a golf course 2.5x larger than the park. At a glance it looks very similar except this land is reserved for the exclusive use of ~500 members.

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  • frezik@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Nothing about golf can be called nature.

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    • Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Maybe where you are and how you play.

      Where i am I’m amongst trees in lakes and water fighting tree roots etc

      Not all of us can keep it on the fairway

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      • MammyWhammy@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Same man, same.

        I was once playing a scramble with a low handicap golfer and he said: “Wow, you got really well out of the woods” …yeah dude, I spend most of my time there

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