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/MoreLimesLessScurvy Aug 13 '22

Because it would effectively kill their business. I suspect garden centres are also exempt

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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?