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• Matty_r@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Probably because fields of grass are better than housing development? Which for the environment, is technically true

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  • bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    As though those are the only two options…

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• TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  oh basically just that it’s curated green space and that’s better or something.

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  • 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.

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    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I mean it’s like anything, you can argue either way. Depending on how the grounds are kept it could be a net positive or a negative. But a lot of golf courses are massive polluter because they use resource-intensive grasses and lots of fertilizers and water to keep it alive. There are more eco-friendly ways to manage a golf course but those are not popular because they cost more and golfers don’t like scrub grasses

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