Comment on Countries across the world use more land for golf courses than wind or solar energy
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 1 year agoI 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
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.
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.
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.
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…
No one is saying parks and golf courses are not a world of difference. The real argument boils down to, is the reason your utility is not building solar or wind farms because there is no land available? If the answer is yes there is no land available than taking over a golf course is a possible option. If the answer is no, there is plenty of land available outside the city, what is the point of wanting to turn golf courses into solar farms?
This article is not about converting golf courses into a different kind of green space.
We come put windfarms on golf courses
Windmills are a staple feature in mini golf so really it was just a matter of time
frezik@midwest.social 1 year ago
Nothing about golf can be called nature.
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 1 year 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
MammyWhammy@lemmy.ml 1 year 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