Comment on A golf course eight miles away from the hottest point on the entire planet.
Crowfiend@lemmy.world 2 months agoI mean people don’t have to just stay home to get close to a golf course that isn’t *literally siphoning the only source of sustainance for hundreds of miles."
There’s a golf course down the street from me, on a main road to one of two local hospitals, surely you can find one within the nearest 10mi and if you can’t? You probably have bigger things to worry about than swinging a club at a 1inch sphere at your feet.
If you’re visiting a country that doesn’t have enough grass to sustain pissing on a tree, you’re going to the wrong places for golf.
rockstarmode@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m not sure I understand? Did you mean county?
It sounds like this course is located at a natural oasis fed by a natural spring. If the course wasn’t there the water would probably feed some plant life and a bit of wildlife. With proper management it’s likely that their water use is more efficient than it would have been naturally. It isn’t unusual for resource aware golf courses to actually improve biodiversity in a region while being water consumption neutral.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yup, sure, it increases biodiversity by using foreign plants in a monoculture. That grass wasn’t there before, so it’s more diverse now you see?
rockstarmode@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Golf courses aren’t just grass, they plant all sorts of other vegetation, which supports local wildlife that wouldn’t otherwise be there.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Then it wasn’t native was it?