• NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    Just for sake of saying, worldwide, golf courses use between 2.5 billion and 5 billion gallons of water PER DAY.

    Can we get rid of amazon and golf courses?

    Golf courses get the extra sweet sauce of maybe an average of about 10 to 30 metric tons of pesticide a day, and then there is the fertilizer…

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      9 hours ago

      I couldn’t believe the numbers and a simple lookup on Wikipedia confirmed the horrors - all golf courses in the U.S. together use approximately 2.5bn gallons A DAY for irrigation. That is such an insanely high number.

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      8 hours ago

      Everyone benefits from aws, the vast majority of people will never play golf