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Rodeo@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

You know what uses three times the amount of water per acre? Corn. And almonds use about ten times more water than corn.

And we get food out of that input, unlike a golf course where you get nothing of value.

And people have only just started caring about lawns, that use two orders of magnitude more water, fertilizer, and land than golf courses.

Have you seen a golf course before? They’re literally lawns.

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ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
You get nothing of value from golf. I don’t play either so neither do I, but this very much comes off as “stop liking things I don’t like” rather than something that is actually important.

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- AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  At least in the southwestern US most of them are a moot point. The vast majority of golf courses are being redeveloped because the course went bankrupt over the last decade or so. A few are managing to stick around, but I wouldn’t be surprised if over 90% of the historical courses are gone in the next few years.
  
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  - ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Such is the way of the free market.
    
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_danny@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Most of the US corn crop goes to animal feed, so no you don’t get food from it. At least not directly. If you totaled up all of the land used by golf courses, you’d be at .1% of just the amount of land used for animal feed. And about 1% of the land used by home lawns.

They’re not that bad, there are much worse enemies than golf courses in general. Again, courses that are in the middle of a city that do nothing but increase property value are terrible, but most are perfectly fine and use way less water than you think.

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- zeppo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Wtf do you think happens to those animals who eat the corn stalks?
  
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