How you feel about the impact of golf on the environment/ecology
Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2023 1:07 pm
Just feel like opening a loose discussion here. My own position is changing these days. At the very least I no longer view a golf course as nature. Golf courses are often adjacent to nature for sure. They contain some natural materials and objects. They sometimes, incidentally, can act as sanctuaries for certain wildlife. But increasingly I am seeing them as artificial, or even perverse. It is more obvious to me here on the dry west coast. In the northeast, courses don't stick out from the environment as much. They resemble ordinary parks, which are also full of green grass. Whereas over here, lawns are going extinct. People don't like to be seen washing their car in the driveway. So of course the amount of water used by a golf course would seem extra obscene.
If it turns out that we are doomed to an apocalyptic Mad Max kind of future, at least we can have simulated golf.
If it turns out that we are doomed to an apocalyptic Mad Max kind of future, at least we can have simulated golf.