my local subreddit once had a golf war thread. the golfers were adamant about how accessible their sport was and how amazing for the environment it was.
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AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Just abolish golf entirely, multiple problems would be solved at once
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 1 day ago
probablymissing@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“amazing for the environment”
do you know their arguement for this i would like to know
Matty_r@programming.dev 1 day ago
Probably because fields of grass are better than housing development? Which for the environment, is technically true
NannerBanner@literature.cafe 1 hour ago
I have a neighbor who thinks a golf course is better than a park. I just want to shake folks sometimes. How is a hellscape of a solitary grass better than a place where you could get all sorts of plants going? One with hiking paths for everyone, and all sorts of goodies like gazebos, meadows, benches…
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
As though those are the only two options…
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 1 day ago
oh basically just that it’s curated green space and that’s better or something.
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
That’s almost worth comparing, if the resources and human effort needed to maintain a golf course, plus any other positive or negative environmental impacts, are favorable to the effects of a parking lot or whatever. But I imagine that, either way, a proper public park would be way better.
Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I recall a story where there was a water restriction on a town for everyone, except for the golf courses. The next day, the golfers found that the Holes had been filled with cement, supposedly poured in there by activists.
DrBob@lemmy.ca 18 hours ago
Not a big deal. They move the holes every week to keep the wear on the green even. There is a hand tool that cuts the hole and you drop the plug in the old one. The cup is just a plastic sleeve. It takes less than 10 minutes a hole.