August 14, 2022
"Climate activists in southern France have filled golf course holes with cement to protest against the exemption of golf greens from water bans..."
"... amid the country's severe drought.... Golf officials say greens would die in three days without water. 'A golf course without a green is like an ice-rink without ice,' Gérard Rougier of the French Golf Federation told the France Info news website.... In a petition, the activists said the exemption showed that 'economic madness takes precedence over ecological reason.' While residents cannot water their gardens or wash their cars in the worst-hit municipalities, golf courses have escaped the nationwide restrictions."
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You really should tag posts about global warming protests with Religion Substitutes.
They do more damage than what they are protesting. Round them up and exterminate them. Just think of the oxygen we will save.
That’s kind of brilliant. It makes the golf course unusable without doing any real damage.
If there is a real need to ration water then there should be no exemption for golf courses.
It is the opposite of economic madness. Not washing your car has very little economic impact. If the greens die, they don't just re-grow themselves when the drought is over. It will cost millions to replace them and will require even more water and fertilizer to grow back, plus the economic impact of closing the business for a year.
Golf courses change the location of their holes on a daily basis.
They will be up and running in no time.
The climate change argument doesn't move me. Even here in the desert we water the greens in summer. A class distinction argument, though, has more weight. If I were a home gardener with flowers I'd cultivated over years, or a vegetable patch, and I can't water? And the rich elites over there get a putting green? I'd be pissed.
Many golf courses provide their own irrigation via ponds and lakes on the course. And contrary to what Greens believe, this water is not gone forever.. most is either filtered by the soil and returned to the aquifer or evaporates and falls later as rain. This is called the hydrologic cycle. Look it up some day.
And by the way, killing the grass means that it is no longer taking carbon dioxide out of the air and releasing oxygen.
"Climate activists." That's the new term for "vandals?"
Gonna be tough to hold the green if you land on the cement.
They drill new hole locations all then time. During tournaments they’ll change them each day. So, it is dumb and useless, but where did the activist get the water for the concrete? Why are they wasting water on stunts that serve their purposes and nobody else?
Tim Who Needs To Stay In Vermont said ... That’s kind of brilliant. It makes the golf course unusable.
Hahahahahhaa. This is so uninformed it is laughable.
New golf holes are cut every day on each hole of a golf course. What ... you think they can't fix this in about 2 minutes? They're cutting new holes anyway. This little stunt has zero effect on a golf course. Mild nuisance. It's also a very good way for activists to get their assess shot.
The Left hates golf. They think that only fat cats play golf. They have no idea about public and municipal golf courses.
"...economic madness takes precedence over ecological reason. While residents cannot water their gardens or wash their cars in the worst-hit municipalities, golf courses have escaped the nationwide restrictions."
Almost all golf courses in the US use reclaimed water, rain runoff held in retention ponds or private wells for golf course irrigation. Water from local water districts is simply too expensive. No doubt the same is true of European golf courses in general because water use is an expense that can be managed so it is managed. Local residents seldom reclaim water or build retention ponds to store water for irrigation, so they use water from local water districts.
I know, it's hard to believe an ecologically reasonable organization like Extinction Rebellion would exaggerate the impact of capitalist entities to further their eco-theology. That would require one to believe that Greta is a Marxist activist instead of a world renowned environmental scientist and that the BBC is leftist propaganda outlet. What's the chance of that?
Madness. Nature does what nature will do. We have bad years here and there, bad seasons here and there. But a bad year or bad season in a particular region does not prove the planet is burning up (or freezing). Records made in the 1800s getting broken today does not mean the planet is burning up. How did they set those records in the 1800s? Who was the culprit then?
I live in South Florida. Our weather is...normal. Hot and humid summer days with a short, heavy thunderstorm every afternoon. It'll be followed by a winter with pleasant temperatures and no rain. It's what the weather is in South Florida. My friends and relatives in the upper Midwest tell me that their summer has been beautiful. Started out hot, but then got just beautiful. Hmmm. How can that be if the planet is burning up from Global Warming? Weather is regional. Globally, we are not much different today as a whole, then we've been for decades. And the changes that are happening...maybe they are supposed to be happening. This planet is not in a stasis. It has been changing, evolving forever and will continue to do so long after all of us are forgotten.
California is burning up. The West is bone dry. Nevada is running out of water. Yet they keep building new massive casino resorts, golf courses, and housing developments. That is probably not smart. Nor is building homes in precarious parts of California.
Nature will do what it will do. I get those people in France getting pissed off at watching the local golf course have access to water they do not. I don't know if the course is public or private, but I would think that if it's public, water should be shut off until things 'normalize'- and they will. They always do. If it's a private club I would charge them excessive rates during drought times and let them decide if they want to water at those rates.
Round up the activists and fill them with concrete. Think of all the CO2 saved. As a side benefit ,several air wasting shits are removed from the gene pool. That's a win win.
Burn the non-believers. Plug their holes!
And this nonsense:
"That’s kind of brilliant. It makes the golf course unusable without doing any real damage."
Ignoring the "new hole" issue, shutting down a business - even temporarily - does REAL damage.
Did you think the BLM riots did no real damage because some business owners were insured? I remember clearly that type of idiotic thinking.
It’s okay to shoot those activists, right?
’It makes the golf course unusable without doing any real damage.’
Hole locations are changed everyday. They simply cut a new hole and patch the old, damaged hole. Super easy, barely an inconvenience.
I'm not a golfer, but to many this is a sacred ritual, deeply felt. This might provoke an atavistic reaction from the patrons of the course, they could revert to hooting and grunting vehemently at the vandals, dragging them by their long hair and beating them with clubs. I recommend a sand wedge.
These "Climate Activists" are filling exactly the same role as the Homeless people in Starbucks.
That is why the globalists are supporting both.
I've not washed my car this year. I will vacuum the interior occasionally though.
It would be way too mean--and way too simple--to just raise the price of water. You want a green lawn? Pay for it. You want a green golf course? Bleeping pay for it. For the first few gallons that people really need, keep the price low. But then jack it up to the real cost during a drought.
If they're just using rainwater they caught in a pond, they won't pay anything.
Blogger lgv said..."It is the opposite of economic madness. Not washing your car has very little economic impact. If the greens die, they don't just re-grow themselves when the drought is over. It will cost millions to replace them and will require even more water and fertilizer to grow back, plus the economic impact of closing the business for a year."
This sounds about right.
For what it’s worth: the three country clubs in town all irrigate from their own wells and pumping systems. The cost of using municipal water for the task would be untenable. Plus, fluoride can’t be good for bent grass greens. :)
Priorities.
And here I was all this time thinking the French are crazy : )
* Climate scolds
I hope that kid flies to Paris to make fun of pedantic BS like this.
"In a petition, the activists said the exemption showed that 'economic madness takes precedence over ecological reason."
Actually, it's more likely a case of ecological madness over economic reason. Governments subsidize water, because it is a "necessity". So people regard it as cheap, and use lots of it. The market could easily manage the water shortage, by raising the price until demand falls to meet supply. But that wouldn't be fair!
The way I putt, you might as well put cement in all the holes.
You guys aren't taking all this seriously enough. Haven't you watched the national news at all this summer, about the unprecedented heat waves? I mean, they had maps of the whole country, and the entire country was red! Or even dark brown! And there were three digits in places! In the summer! And the fonts were sinister-looking! No joke.
And Al Roker, who's a straight shooter, he was clearly concerned. Shook his head, because we may not have much time to do something. And they also showed clips of fires in the wilderness, followed by polar bears with almost no ice around them! This is some serious shit going on.
If they had been more diabolical, they would have cemented the sprinkler heads.
Diversity (e.g. class-based bigotry), Inequity, and Exclusion (DIE) policy is a double-edged scalpel.
Climate activists are our secular age's religious fanatics. They would burn the heretics but for the carbon footprint.
Like most of their stunts, they're actually increasing the amount of greenhouse gasses that have to be expended to correct their vandalism.
lgv @ 6:08AM: "It will cost millions to replace them and will require even more water and fertilizer to grow back, plus the economic impact of closing the business for a year."
Yes. Imagine the economic impact of closing a business TWO years. Oh, wait..
Since they aren't bathing, what else do the French do with their water?
This morning, it was supposed to be unusually cool and dry here today, but now it's darkening and they predict rain and storms for the next 36 hours. Still freakishly in the 70s.
Not a jacqueshammer anywhere nearby?
Did the activists use low-carbon cement to fill the golf holes?
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