Nevada golf course replaces grass to conserve water
Persistent drought has been hitting the Rockies, and it's pushing businesses to make some long-term adjustments. One such business is golfing. A Nevada golf course is replacing their grass to conserve water. So far, they've converted 39 acres of cool-seaso...
I'm just linking this to share the hilarious comment section, the article itself is boring, irrelevant, but the comments are hilarious. I've noticed this subspecies of golf haters, which range from claiming how ''USA has so many huge golf courses taking up so much space, instead of using it to house all of the homeless!!!'' to these climate/environment doomsday preachers
Some gems:
And get a load of these 2 retards
''Stolen'' from far away? I believe it's transported from far away? Ancient Egyptians are praised for their ingenuity, how did they drag those stone blocks from far away, but when modern humans figure out a way to solve the water problem in a desert, and make it work, they're somehow, not bright? Very interesting. And I am sure the decades of this guys ''water conservation'', whatever the fuck that is supposed to be, has made absolutely 0 difference to this planet.
This one reads like a WEF speech
Progress is when no grass in the yard of your selfish house, everyone should live in concrete buildings to save the planet!!!
Actually the Ur example of Anti-Golfers might be in communist China, where golfing is seen as a wasteful extravagance of the wealthy. Chinese businessmen relish the opportunity to go overseas to play golf because they can't do it much at home.
This is such an oddly specific hot take that I can only imagine Carlin (and all the other anti-golfers) picked up the idea during his morning reads of The Daily Worker. Probably reasonable to assume that random comments on an English Yahoo! article are Chinese communist agents too.
George Carlin wasn't above class warfare to win friends and influence people.
It always astonishes me how one of the most famous people on earth with a net worth of several million dollars managed to trick two generations into thinking he's "just like them" simply because he put his hair in a ponytail. The man's entire act was "how do you do, fellow proletariat?"
The thing is, it kind of is. Simply because the amount of space and upkeep it takes to keep one running, but the game itself requires extremely small amounts of players on it at any certain time to function.
I live out in a drought prone county with plural golf courses and its a constant problem of "well rich retirees and tourists deserve the water more than our ranchers and farmers" to keep them running.
My counter point about the farming is maybe you shouldn't farm super water intensive crops in a desert.
See also, most of ca.
Regardless of that. One provides a pretty necessary and important service, while the other is requiring a significantly larger investment to provide leisure to the upper class. Especially when the ranchers have been here for generations and settled the land, while the golfers came in recently and our loving government decided to give it to them.
Especially as most of ours is in horses and meat, less in crops. Most of which are native to the land anyway.
That sounds like the root of the problem, besides the fact that water is a limited resource in drought-prone areas.
It is, but we all know that when the choices are "rednecks who run the country" and "rich elites who will give you a throwback" who they will always choose.
We have the same campaigns here (Australia), too. Particularly in cities…
Funny that.
Golf is boring though. Play a real sport, like Calvin ball. 😄👍
Watching golf? Yeah, pretty boring.
Playing golf? A lot of fun. It's basically taking a walk through a nice park while having an objective.
Only REAL men use the putter for everything.
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Exactly. Watching golf is quite boring outside of highlights, but playing it is a completely different experience. Not just a lot of fun, but incredibly relaxing.
They just hate golf because black people can't dominate in it. And before someone says "Tiger", he was raised in an environment that cultivated patience and rewarded skill, you know, white and asian parents. And even then, people know his name and not the hundreds of other excellent pro golfers because of the media obsession with elevating black people above the level that their performance justifies.
"But muh environmental impact!"
Funny they say nothing about NFL, MLB, or NBA, with their mass-produced sweatshop licensed garbage that consumes incredible amounts of energy, transportation, and raw resources that just winds up in landfills because salty sportsball fans are unhappy that their tribe did not win the golden MacGuffin this year.
Tiger is the whitest black guy I've ever seen. I don't think even the Blacks try to claim him because of how white he is.
bull shit!
I would just be more on the regular golf is inferior to crazy golf, why not have the hole somewhere in a forest or a train yard and see who CAN get a hole in one in those conditions.
Can't do cities especially blue ones as that becomes a golf/shooting tournament..
Golf is literally conspicuous consumption: the game, and having a huge field of grass in the middle of a desert is wasteful and stupid. Paying for the water isn't enough because of unpriced externalities, ie you are consuming a limited shared resource.
If you are pro-desert-golf just because some retard is anti-desert-golf, then you are just a reactionary simpleton and are not thinking for yourself.
No, I am pro golf because I like golf. I have better things to do than form my opinions purely to spite meaningless retards..
I disagree with you, I think golf is a great sport.
I just hate golf courses because they attract yankees. Now my state has hundreds of yankee retirement communities all bragging about how they have access to hundreds of golf courses. And of course the yankees vote like yankees.
Abbie Richards, who is essentially a science student turned TikToker (which is especially painful for me, as someone in the field, lol), made hating golf “cool” with the young’uns, in the last few years…
But leftists have hated golf for decades…
They just couch it in “anti-elitism” and so-called “environmental concerns”, nowadays… 🤷🏻♂️
“Weirdly”, pretty much anywhere you have both leftists and golf, you have this clash…
having a grass golf course in the desert is retarded on its face
get creative with it or use the fake shit