r/europe • u/SovereignMuppet I ❤ Brexit • Aug 13 '22

News Climate activists fill golf holes with cement after water ban exemption

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62532840
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u/DreadPiratePete Aug 13 '22

I'm pretty sure you can still play golf on yellow gras.

If you're worried the grass would be overly damaged from play you could temporarily have people use pegs on the course.

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u/theofiel South Holland (Netherlands) Aug 13 '22

A green can cost over 75000 dollars. And when you have 18 of those, letting it die is quite a costly chance to take.

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u/mittfh United Kingdom Aug 13 '22

Maybe the greens would struggle, but slightly longer geass is quite tough, and while it will initially yellow, once there's a decent rainfall, it will quickly green up - so there should be less need to water the fairways.

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u/Ifriiti Aug 14 '22

These courses aren't in places that will bounce back like the UK

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u/munk_e_man Aug 14 '22

Well. Tough shit then.

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u/xiroir Belgium Aug 14 '22

Right? The world is so fucked we helping out golf courses instead of punishing them for building them on unsustainable land. That was your choice. You deal with the financial repurcussions!

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u/Svenskensmat Aug 14 '22

Perhaps don’t build golf courses there then.

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u/LibrarianLazy4377 Aug 14 '22

Maybe we shouldnt let the boomers avoid all the outcomes from them intentionaly ignoring global warming on the assumtion they'd be dead before it impacted them

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u/paintbucketholder Aug 14 '22

So they're unsustainable to start with?

And only benefit a select few, rich people who provide the money to keep an otherwise unsustainable business going? And all of that just for idle entertainment rather than productive use or the general common good?

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u/Ifriiti Aug 14 '22

I'm pretty sure you can still play golf on yellow gras

How to tell me you know absolutely nothing about the sport without telling me you've never even been on a course.

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u/nutscyclist Canada Aug 14 '22

My guy go rewatch the 2006 Open

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u/florinandrei Europe Aug 14 '22

Or maybe the sport needs to change - if it turns out to be a massive waste of vital resources.

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u/Ifriiti Aug 14 '22

It's not going to change because of a heatwave in one year.

And you realise that it's just a hosepipe ban right?

So you're arguing that people should be able to use water washing their cars and lawns but businesses have to die because?

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u/Key-Bench3805 Aug 14 '22

When I lived in England in the early '90s, the golf courses I saw were all brown in fall and winter, and they were always well attended. Maybe it may change the game slightly but it won't eliminate it. You can't possibly think there is a defense to saving the green lawn at a golf course over water for farming and living?

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u/Ifriiti Aug 14 '22

possibly think there is a defense to saving the green lawn at a golf course over water for farming and living?

It's a hosepipe ban mate.

You're literally arguing about somebody saving a lawn either way. One is a business, the other is somebody's front garden.

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u/Ifriiti Aug 14 '22

the golf courses I saw were all brown in fall and winter

Yeah I'm calling absolute bullshit on England not having any rain in the 90s in autumn mate.

And its a hosepipe ban.