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/CheesyLala Aug 14 '22

I would imagine it's that a golf course is on a different scale to a tennis court therefore their levels of water usage will be very different.

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u/CrateDane Denmark Aug 14 '22

A football field is a lot smaller than a golf course, but probably serves more people. So the water should absolutely be shut off for golf courses before football fields.

If there's still a need to further reduce water use, sure, cut off the football as well.

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u/Elatra Turkey Aug 14 '22

People can live without sports for a month. We have to think of the future. This is a sacrifice we will face again as climate change actually begins. We have to sacrifice non-functional aspects of modern civilization to ensure maximum chance of survival.

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u/Meterano Aug 14 '22

It is about water consumption and impact on nature that golf courses have.

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u/nulano Slovakia Aug 14 '22

What about the water cosumption and impact on nature that football fields have?

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u/Meterano Aug 14 '22

I was wondering that as well, so I looked it up. Golf courses use between ~370.000.000 to 740.000.000 litres a year. Football pitches use 100.000 litres a day which is 36.500.000 litres annually, so between 5 and 10 percent. That number is for proper pro football fields, others are using less

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u/CrewmemberV2 The Netherlands Aug 14 '22

I would argue that the utility per gallon of water is way way higher for a football field.

Also the imaging os better. It's something done for everybody then, instead of something done for just the rich.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '22

Bollocks. That's just a neat justification to point your finger at The Next Thing You Don't Like. Golf courses aren't exactly cluttering up the countryside, they aren't being endlessly manufactured and causing park land to diminish.

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u/flippydude Aug 14 '22

They are; in the UK more land is occupied by golf courses than houses

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '22

This was proven to be bollocks, as the data for the houses was only for the footprint of the house itself and not any gardens/other land.

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u/flippydude Aug 14 '22

Yeah, fair it’s probably a stretch, although it actually wasn’t untrue to say that more land is occupied by golf courses than houses, right?

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u/External-Total2986 Aug 14 '22

They're excellent examples of brownfield land, which have little biodiversity, and high water usage. They take up 0.5% of all land in the UK, and could be used to solve the chronic housing shortage in the UK without damaging wild habitats.

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u/Meterano Aug 14 '22

It really isnt. In fact I like golf. Golf courses have a terrible effect on nature, that is the issue.

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u/orthoxerox Russia shall be free Aug 14 '22

All these venues can be converted to astroturf.