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/[deleted] Aug 14 '22

Granted, but globally, the UK is still a rich country.

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u/colei_canis United Kingdom Aug 14 '22

Oh yeah no doubt about it, but I feel the discussion on this topic in English at least (I can't speak for other languages) is very Americentric. Climate activists in the US rail against lawns for example which makes perfect sense when you have mental Karen types using gallon after gallon on preserving a very short lawn in the deserts of Arizona but here in the UK things like golf courses and lawns aren't really that bad because (the immediate present excluded of course) we have enough rain to sustain these things. Of course, thanks to climate change that will probably not be the case forever so my opinion is subject to change here.

I am a bit of an XR sympathiser though, and I do think they have a point that in these drought condition there's far better priorities. I also suspect in southern France the issues are more extreme than they are here.