Meh. At least it’s green space and not a strip mall or a parking lot.
U.S. leads countries where golf courses occupy more land than solar, wind plants
Submitted 5 weeks ago by compostgoblin@slrpnk.net to energy@slrpnk.net
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reddig33@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
compostgoblin@slrpnk.net 5 weeks ago
Grass may be green, but I wouldn’t call a golf course a ‘green space’. Between the amount of pesticide and fertilizer they use, and the fact that it’s a monoculture, a golf course is pretty much an ecological dead zone.
lordnikon@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Plus the amount of water to keep nonative English grass on American soil green makes it even woese than a strip mall
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 5 weeks ago
it’s a private greenspace of minimal social, communal, or economic value. it’s a high maintenance monoculture play ground for theevery wealthy
alykanas@slrpnk.net 5 weeks ago
unseen benefits of golf : keeps a lot of pricks busy and out of the way at weekends.
think carefully before returning golfers to the general population.
Beastimus@slrpnk.net 5 weeks ago
This has already been posted here I think
cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
The United States tops the list, with more than 16,000 golf courses, followed by the United Kingdom (around 3,100) and Japan (around 2,700). Canada, Australia, Germany, South Korea, France, China and Sweden round out the top 10 countries.
shalafi@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Now compare that with livable surface area.
houseofleft@slrpnk.net 5 weeks ago
How meaningful is the golf vs renewables comparison? Wind and solar require different ammounts of land, especially factoring in offshore wind? Also, Sweden has one of the cleanest energy make ups, but a comparitively high amount of golf courses, so like, I dunno?
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Ok, now I need to see the graph that compates countries’ golf courses vs solar fields as % of area.