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We will survive this climate crisis if we can somehow figure out a way of living without golf courses in deserts.
by jl6 5y ago
We will survive this climate crisis if we can somehow figure out a way of living without golf courses in deserts.
- ricardobayes 5y agoWill not happen, first world governments will rather go to war before needing to give up luxuries.
- drewmate 5y agoI'm not optimistic. People (it seems especially in the US) seem to think once they have something it is morally unconscionable for anyone to take any action that might affect that (even in the light of new facts.) You see this with water rights (residential and agricultural), low property taxes, home values (NIMBYism in a nutshell), business models (environmental regulations would harm the extant oil industry!) and on and on. This is a phenomenon I've observed anecdotally for a while, but I'd love to hear if there's a name for it, or if it has been formally studied.
- prawn 5y agoIn Australia, we have desert courses where the greens are a fine bitumen/gravel. The fairways are not irrigated.