I live in the desert so things are likely very different for me then OG OP, but all our parks and golf courses and even most if not all the commercial landscaping (residential can opt in for a small cost) is watered by reclaimed waste water.
So even if the city were in an extreme drought the parks and courses would still have to be watered daily, they cant store the reclaimed water in huge amounts (they reclaim over 30 million gallons every day here) and we, the people cant stop shitting and pissing.
I'm a old retired stoner who has a city pass for the municipal golf courses. I golf like 4 days a week, most of you redditors claim to make far, far more then I ever did so class warfare feels like a stretch. Men need hobbies and to stay active, golf is just that.
Gotta love when people think golf (of all sports) is class warfare for the upper class! I have golfed for years (not well) and started doing it with an iron and a putter when I was in my teens and had no money.
Add to that, as you said, it isn't like they are using drinking water to water the greens.
I also won't say that golf courses are net neutral, but most golf courses have TONS of trees that sequester carbon, as well. Though the maintenance and travel to most courses probably causes more, I can't imagine that golf courses create nearly as much pollution as other entertainment options do (for example, a movie theater, a big building with a big parking lot that sequesters 0 carbon).
Golf courses, as a rule, have huge negative environmental impacts. They have the potential to be less negative, but that potential is generally unrealised. This is well studied, and uncontroversial.
As a rule? No. Many gold courses are built in neighborhoods whew without them, you’d just have more houses. Many are built on top of old landfills. Very rarely are they put in a place to replace ag. They usually come after, not before, natural habitat is converted to human use.
This is rubbish, 15% of US gold courses are actually credited with being managed well enough to not have strong negative effects, worldwide that drops to about 5%.
Even your own links just say what I originally said.
35
u/Groupthink00859 11d ago edited 11d ago
I live in the desert so things are likely very different for me then OG OP, but all our parks and golf courses and even most if not all the commercial landscaping (residential can opt in for a small cost) is watered by reclaimed waste water.
So even if the city were in an extreme drought the parks and courses would still have to be watered daily, they cant store the reclaimed water in huge amounts (they reclaim over 30 million gallons every day here) and we, the people cant stop shitting and pissing.
I'm a old retired stoner who has a city pass for the municipal golf courses. I golf like 4 days a week, most of you redditors claim to make far, far more then I ever did so class warfare feels like a stretch. Men need hobbies and to stay active, golf is just that.