On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 3:38 PM, David B. Shemano <[email protected]> wrote:
> My sense is there an an anti-golf progressive sensibility. Why? As recreational facilities go, golf courses seem particularly wasteful in terms of land and resource use. According to Derrick Jensen, "Collectively, municipal golf courses use as much water as municipal human beings" (http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/4801). And I shudder to think of all the chemicals being used to keep those hundreds of thousands of acres of grass green. I'm not particularly anti-golf, but if I were, that would be the reason why. -- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað." _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
