With fewer golf courses, there might be more suburban sprawl, less green space, and all that that implies.
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Joseph Catron <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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