Comment on Very few people realise how environmentally devastating this game is.

• Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  it’s really not in a large part of the country. In a desert sure. But even there they take measures like using recycled water and not pottable water and such. And of course agriculture makes every other water use pale in comparison.

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  • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Agriculture is food. We need food. We don’t really need a way for a bunch of Wall Street bailouts queens to have a social activity.

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    • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The vast majority of golfers are regular people. Teachers, and people who do shift work have free time during the normal workday are some. Retires from all sorts of jobs are the rest of the majority. Most golf courses aren’t as fancy as you see on tv, and they don’t actually cost that much to play on. Wall street bailouts would never be caught dead on the average golf course.

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      • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I don’t know a single regular person who can afford to spend 9 hours on a weekend golfing. The only people I know who can afford that are people who inherited millions of dollars.

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    • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      sure we need food. But the way we water it is one of the more inefficient ways possible. But it is inexpensive. They could use almost 80% less water than they do. If you are worried about water use, start there. ag.umass.edu/vegetable/…/irrigation-drip#:~:text=….

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      • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ok good. Start your own farm and do that. Golf isn’t suddenly good because some farmers suck

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