Golf courses are not eco-friendly - FACT
Golf is a game for gentlemen right?
Yes it may well be, but it’s not much good for the ecology of the planet. The fact is golf course are far from good for the environment. Taking it a level further think of all the travelling that is undertaken to get to a golf course. We all know golf tourism is huge business.
Think golf, think golfer, think carbon footprint.
You nay think that I am being vindictive, after all not so long ago I talked about the use of electric golf trolleys and the ridiculous burden they have on the planet. Well I have dug deeper and I really do not like what I see.
We all think that playing golf makes us at one with nature, how wrong can you be!
FACT: Golf is an environmentally damaging sport - The boom time has created scores of golf courses which are becoming the scourge of environmentalists.
Here’s what the average golf course destroys when being built:
- Vegetation
- Cutting forests
- Creating artificial landscapes
Creating a golf course leads to problems with land erosion and the inability of soil to retain water.
Golf courses are planet killers, as are golfers
Let’s not forget the chemicals that golf courses use every day in their attempt to keep them pristime for the ‘eco-friendly golfers’ of the world.
Chemicals, pesticides and more
Every day uses on golf courses include pesticides, fertilizers and herbicides, all three can of course create health problems for golfers and nearby residents. Can you see where I am going, Golf is hardly the healthy game that it is portrayed as.
Golf courses use lots of pesticides
Here lies the problem, governments from around the world support golf courses simply because of the economic benefits they can bring - tremendous, the government taxes the life out of us to be greener and then rewards planet-killing projects, how does that work?
Asia is a prime example of where the popularity of golf has literally exploded:
Asia 1970 - 45 Golf courses
Asia 2008 - 500 Golf courses
So when you are spending more on food at your local shops blame a golfer, because the need for additional golf courses has led to the loss paddy fields and virgin forests.
Then look at the golf tourism going to Asia and you have one hell of a carbon footprint, add the menace of golf trolley batteries and we have a
Oh yes, golf is such a Eco-friendly sport - NOT!
Written by EcoGirl on May 30th, 2008 with
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#1. June 3rd, 2008, at 12:16 PM.
Totally pathetic, I think you lot should be more concerned about the nails you tree hugger put in trees to keep your “protest” houses up there, its people like you ruining this country and btw global warming IS natural and not affected by man.