for someone who chagrins people for doing, well, literally everything, i think that's a bit rich.
don't you 'bah humbug' anyone who takes a plane for tourism? but you're sanguine about ... golf courses?! are you kidding? LMAO.
and aren't you against 'clubbable' types and elitist snobs, etc, sealing themselves away in bastions of privilege, normally always at the expense of everything and everyone else? LOL.
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/soci … ate-changeIn the UK, twice as much land is given for golf than it is for housing.
In the US alone, over two billion gallons of water is used every day to irrigate golf courses. There have also been studies on the high levels of toxicity that effect the local residents and environments that surround courses, due to the heavy pesticides used to maintain them (so much so that some argue it is deadly). Even the very construction of a golf course involves materials that have a negative environmental impact.
bearing in mind that golf originally was played in areas of biodiverse wild grassland, in scotland, there's a special sort of insanity about introducing hundreds of millions of acres of perfectly sculpted, monocultural, blindingly green grassland to, er, the nevada desert. it's completely barmy – a lot of golf courses go as far as to introduce scots pines trees for that 'authentic' look. scots pines ... in florida.
In Las Vegas, golf courses accounted for 28 of the top 100 water consumers in a 2003 survey. As freshwater in desert areas becomes more and more scarce and wildfires seem to wreak more and more havoc every year, it can be hard to defend the high water demands of golf courses.
https://blueandgreentomorrow.com/enviro … l-warming/why is it that you're so fanatical about causes one minute, but then flippant the next? you're very selective, aren't you? one minute a committed eco-warrior, making tough lifestyle cutbacks for the sake of the planet, extolling the virtues of your magnanimous conscience, etc, etc; then the next you're saying 'let the little country club golfers have their pesticide-soaked, water-guzzling expanses to knock balls around'.
so can people get on planes to go see their loved ones or not? i thought you were against all forms of 'selfish human behaviour' and people 'fancying lolling around on a beach'. but hugely environmentally destructive golf courses are ok? hahaha make some FUCKING sense for once in your life.
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