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Originally Posted by jimjamuser
We know that the top 2 polluting countries are the US and China. We were # 1, then China captured that dubious honor. If the pollution caused by the US and China were zero, there would probably be no global warming and therefore, no BIG fires in Ca. and no Big hurricanes. How to DETERMINE the effect of Golf courses on that big picture? ........China is the US's main trading partner. We effectively OUTSOURCE our pollution for manufacturing to China, because their government does NOT bother to care about its people or the air quality of the rest of the world. But, we are driving China in that direction. The Chinese tend to play table tennis because of their large population and less rural and suburban landmass than the US. We have the LUXURY of being able to play GOLF. Due to the LEVERAGE of the golf club and swing, a golfer does NOT have to be especially strong or have great athletic footwork. They do need SKILL, practice, and a VERY resource-heavy and LARGE area to play in - as compared to a basketball court, football field (which has multiple uses), hockey ice rink (multiple uses), table tennis table, pickleball court, and etc. Older, less athletic people can participate successfully in GOLF - the club leverage has an equalizing effect.
Exactly how much the environmental cost of golf courses would be hard to quantify and to calculate. It would take a scientific paper to spell it all out. Mining of phosphate fertilizers would be a big factor - talk about wind-blown dust! A big factor would be exhaust gases from internal combustion engines of both mining equipment and the bizzions of golf cars with limited pollution control devices on their exhaust pipes! Golf course fertilizer runoff into US water systems would be another LARGE cost to air and water quality. Any sport has costs and costs to the environment, but Golf might have the LARGEST costs to the SMALLEST number of people as a ratio. I had heard that golf was DECREASING in popularity with the younger upcoming generations. If true, this current TV Land generation may (?) be the last generation that NEEDS golf courses? Mybe the forest will return and the earth can heal itself??????>?
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The problem is the original premise---THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS GLOBAL WARMING CAUSED BY MANKIND. IT IS A MYTH PERPETUATED BY THOSE WITH SOME KIND OF POLITICAL AGENDA AND ONE OF THE BIGGEST CON JOBS IN HUMAN HISTORY. I've posted the paleoclimatology behind the cyclical changes in Earth's history several times. Short version---WE ARE IN AN ICE AGE, AND HAVE BEEN IN THIS ONE FOR ABOUT 4 MILLION YEARS. During this time, there are periods of glaciation and periods of interglacial thaws. We are currently in a thaw which started about 17,000 years ago and we will continue to have "global warming" for about another 15,000 years. Then we will start cooling again on the way to another period of glaciation. So, take NYC for example. In about 5-10,000 years it will be under 100-200 feet of water. 30,000 years later it will be under 2 miles of ice. These cycles are about 60,000 years in length and have been going on for 4 million years. And Guess what----IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH SUV'S, CARBON FOOTPRINTS, BURNING COAL IN CHINA AND INDIA----NOTHING. But merrily, merrily the MSM, the Hollyweird crowd, those left of center continue to repeat this myth, and are willing to spend 100 trillion dollars over the next 50 years to "fight it" Cervantes would be proud of how far we have come in tilting at windmills.
Now, I can see the response already----most scientists agree that we are causing "global warming"----the same scientists that are dependent on government stipends and grants to survive. Try looking at those that are independent of the government and see what they say.