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U.S. leads countries where golf courses occupy more land than solar, wind plants
(pv-magazine-usa.com)
this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2025
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Meh. At least it’s green space and not a strip mall or a parking lot.
Grass may be green, but I wouldn’t call a golf course a ‘green space’. Between the amount of pesticide and fertilizer they use, and the fact that it’s a monoculture, a golf course is pretty much an ecological dead zone.
Plus the amount of water to keep nonative English grass on American soil green makes it even woese than a strip mall
Aren’t most golf courses using non potable/recaptured water these days?
It's still fresh water not bring treated and when you have rivers at record lows every oz you can get is worth it
it's a private greenspace of minimal social, communal, or economic value. it's a high maintenance monoculture play ground for the very wealthy