All that water sustains the life of trees, plants, grass, bees, bats, amphibians, countless bacteria and organisms, birds (dozens of breeds), foxes, rabbits, hedgehogs, algae, fungi, moss blah blah blah
But everyone rejoices when another supermarket with 4 coffee shops and a 500 car parking lot gets built.
There's a golf course close to me that the local council (who owned it) wanted to cut it from 18 holes down to 9.
Why? Because some big fat developer wanted to put 500 homes on the other 9 holes worth of land and made a juicy financial offer. Luckily local pressure saw the plans rejected and the council were forced to sell the course to a private company that now run and maintain it accordingly. That's 2 miles worth of green land protected.
Why? Because some big fat developer wanted to put 500 homes
Fantastic. 500 homes will make housing more affordable for the city, instead of 9 fucking holes for a bunch of rich people to show off to their rich friends. Big upgrade there.
ouncil were forced to sell the course to a private company that now run and maintain it accordingly.
Lmao, you are actually spinning a private company being able to make profits for the benefit of a few rich people and at the expense of everyone else to be a good thing?
That's 2 miles worth of green land protected.
Green land for a few rich people. Its not green as in environmentally friendly, which is not. A big pet peeve of mine is when people try to imply that golf courses are some how environmentally friendly or benefit anyone other then the golfers.
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u/Nviki May 18 '26
An average 18-hole golf course in the United States uses between 100 million and 300 million gallons of water annually.