Comment on A golf course eight miles away from the hottest point on the entire planet.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 4 months agoYup, 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 4 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 4 months ago
Then it wasn’t native was it?
rockstarmode@lemmy.world 4 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.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yes, that’s the point. But if you divert the water then you’ve killed them. Bringing in different ones isn’t a value add, it’s just green washing marketing. You cannot introduce a human structure to manage water more efficiently than nature. The local ecosystem has spent thousands of years developing around that water source.
It’s thinking like yours that got us into the position of having to remove dams and concrete river channels.