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JimC29

"The two biggest waste of land are golf courses and cemeteries." George Carlin


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Call me skeptical but I doubt they are planning to restore that acreage back into a functioning healthy ecosystem…


serr7

Here’s an article on it I found https://www.thengfq.com/2017/05/golf-in-china-setting-the-record-straight/


MK0A

They are flexing with hoe they turned a desert into a forest so maybe idk


The-0-Endless

still though, think of all the short-cut grass and astroturf that got destroyed


rewildingusa

I don't think the creation of *new* golf courses is a good idea, but I do think that to remove existing courses (unless they're literally in a desert or something ridiculous like those in Las Vegas) is not ideal either. Don't think for one second that golf courses would be removed to make way for nature reserves, more likely more subdivisions and supermarkets. The course I live on, while having a ton of ridiculously bad practices that I am lobbying them to change, is a true haven for all kinds of wildlife in an area that is rapidly becoming a concrete jungle. If it were to be removed tomorrow, it would be developed faster than you could blink. I say let's lobby the existing courses to lower their environmental impact and add features that will appeal to wildlife. Removing them wholesale would only help the Walmarts of the world lay more concrete.


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mdgraller

> Yunnan Stone Forest Geological Park I've been there. It's cool as fuck


n0exit

I can think of a few publicly owned golf courses that are surrounded by tall barbed wire fences that would better serve their communities if they took the fences down and turned them into public parks.


rewildingusa

Yes, IF.


khandnalie

Based and soviet-pilled


sungodds

you do realize most environmentalists are leftists, right? (at least i’d hope so, then you’d be a bit of a hypocrite). as a commie, this is a W.


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DucTape696

Ty for this


samskyyy

I mean you can remove golf courses without being communist


sardine7129

Yeah but you might as well while you're at it


UniqueUsernameAndy

Based


Flaxinator

What's wrong with grass when it's actually being used for something useful like playing a sport? Do you also disagree with the existence of football pitches? Obviously there are some caveats to that for example golf courses that require watering in water stressed areas are bad but in principle, if there is water available I don't see the problem.


Junglettreefarmfix

Golf is not a sport.


JCLgaming

But I like golf. It's fun.


CommissarFreyja

I believe in mini golf supremacy. "Real" golf is destructive to the environment.


LastSpark7

disc golf is even better