Comment on Very few people realise how environmentally devastating this game is.
STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world 1 year agoThis meme is just discussing how wasteful golfing is. No one here is forming a secret plot to do away with all the golf courses, like. Golfing is one of the many ways in which the 1% disproportionately destruct the planet. I think bringing attention to that is important.
Ah so we want all the negative sentiment for saying we want to end golf but none of the positive effects of doing so? Fantastic plan!
I guess at best it might help push some courses into adopting ecologically sustainable management practices just to attract the green minded player.
It think it’s more likely to foster resentment and distrust ‘give the greens an inch and before you know it they’ll have it’s all locked in shoe boxes eating bugs’ mentally that is so hard to fight against.
It think it’s more likely to foster resentment and distrust ‘give the greens an inch and before you know it they’ll have it’s all locked in shoe boxes eating bugs’ mentally that is so hard to fight against.
a very active imagination you have going there. you were going to list the positive effects, go on.
please enumerate the pro’s from golf. The harms are manifold - everything from profligate water waste, terrible issues w/ fertilizer runoff, enormous amounts of land that could be used for housing, promoting a historically racist and classist sport, the harms are obvious and many. What pro’s do you have that outweigh any of these cons?
Frozengyro@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I doubt it’s as harmful as you think. Maybe in desert areas. I don’t golf, but I know people from every economic group who love the game. Definitely not just a rich person’s sport.
HikingVet@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
They wanted to buldoze a rare ecological area in my province to create one because it would crate about a dozen jobs and the area was “barren”.
And yes it is a rich person’s game. How many kids from disadvantaged neighbourhoods do you hear making the PGA?
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Every youth sport costs a lot to participate in, and kids from disadvantaged neighborhoods rarely make it in any professional sport.