Golf course vandels

[Hawkins001]

"Environmental activists in France have filled in golf course holes with cement to protest against the exemption of golf greens from water bans amid a crippling nationwide drought"

Headline from one of the news papers, I get water is precious, but 😲, people.

Good on them. We're in a climate crisis.

I love the French for their protesting! We ought to take a leaf out of their book.

Good.

Great idea. Tempted to try it on the million ridiculous golf courses around here.

Funnily, concrete should be alright to extract, and they will just move the hole 😂 not sure why they thought that would be a good protest, it doesn't really cause huge disruption. Our local golf course is fairly dry right now, but we're not in a hosepipe ban area anyway.

And how much water did it take to mix up all that cement which is inevitably going to be removed?

I sympathise. Why should golf course beva special case. Grass will grow back.

Not much. Have you ever made cement?

they are not called bunker for nothing now...

surely golf can be played on dry grass. I agree it shouldn't be exempt from waterin bans.

That's an excellent idea. I'm quite tempted ...

I’m no fan of XR by a long stretch, but they have a point. Golf is hardly vital is it, if they are suffering water shortages, golf courses don’t feel like a priority to me.

Golf courses shouldn't be exempt from watering bans if there's a drought. How do they expect anyone to take water shortages seriously if hitting a ball around a massive lawn is a priority?

I can sympathise with them - golf courses are wildlife deserts at the best of times, green (usually!), but deserts nonetheless, sprayed with chemicals to kill everything which isn't grass, dosed with fertilizers, growth promoters, growth inhibitors, herbicides, insecticides - for Christ's sake, they even use chemicals to kill worms, because worm casts are 'inconvenient' to golfers!

And for what? All so that a few twats in Rupert Bear trousers can knock a little ball about with a stick. So, yes, allowing golf courses to water the Greens, when everyone else is being urged to use water wisely and sparingly is bound to raise the ire of those who actually care about our precious resources

Protests like this are great until the protest is about something YOU like. Then suddenly they are not so great. I know its boring, but laws are there for a reason.

And no, I don't play golf.

I think it's a great protest and I agree with them.

Also even if all that happens is the golf course unplug the holes, it's achieved masses of international attention for the cause.

Plug the holes