Comment on A golf course eight miles away from the hottest point on the entire planet.
rockstarmode@lemmy.world 2 months agoIf 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.
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?
rockstarmode@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You must be trolling.
Birds, insects, and reptiles are common even in the desert. A species can be native to an ecosystem or region, without naturally occuring in an small locality.
If humans manage water more efficiently than nature would have in this locality, it stands to reason that the resulting local ecosystem would be able to attract and support more native wildlife.
This is observable and provable for golf courses which manage their resources with a focus on limiting their natural resource use and increasing local biodiversity.
You just hate golf courses, which is fine, but you sound pretty uninformed.