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People actually interested in environmental responsibility have been screaming about golf courses for decades and have succeeded at slowly improving regulations
by stathibus 1y ago
People actually interested in environmental responsibility have been screaming about golf courses for decades and have succeeded at slowly improving regulations over the years. This kind of whataboutism comes off as very tired and unserious in 2025.
- schiffern 1y agoI'm referring to the oversaturated mainstream media coverage, not real activist. The golf course number was surprising so I shared it. Forgive me. It's telling that for AI we're only given impressive-sounding water numbers, but never in the context of total consumption. It has all the hallmarks of a media-driven moral panic, not serious activism. The fact that HN's response is to compare (these particular) water users to murderers[0] and cry whataboutism and unseriousness against me... it's not exactly helping convince me that this isn't 90% motivated moral panic and 10% legitimate grievance. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45097661 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45097661