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"China has launched a renewed crackdown on golf, closing 111 courses in an effort to conserve water and land, and telling members of the ruling Communist Party to stay off the links.

The state-run Xinhua News Agency said Sunday the courses were closed for improperly using groundwater, arable land or protected land within nature reserves. It said authorities have imposed restrictions on 65 more courses.

China banned the development of new golf courses in 2004, when it had fewer than 200. Since that time, the number of courses more than tripled to 683 before the new crackdown, Xinhua said."

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This is great news, and exactly what needs to be done all over the world to protect biodiversity and the environment! Fuck golf courses!

I saw a post about how much housing could be built on the 'open' space of a golf course. It got me thinking that... I don't think there's a quick way to actually get people to stop making golf courses. I don't think there's an achievable way to make 'repurpose these golf courses into something useful, like affordable housing' in the next twenty years. There aren't any ways to easily, quickly force these places to change what they are doing.

I wish there was, but most of them (over 80%) are private property:

According to the National Golf Foundation, in 2020, there were roughly 16,100 courses at 14,100 facilities in the U.S. Of that total, 75 percent are open to the public: 2,500 municipal and 7,900 daily-fee. That leaves approximately 4,025 courses labeled as private. (source)

So the ones we can actually influence are the ones that are not owned by the megarich; I'm not upset about a community pool the same way I'm upset about a multimillionaire keeping five pools active in his backyard during a drought.

But you know what we can do? Bother our representatives about raising taxes on golf courses, and closure of courses will likely follow.

You want to use up a whole lot of land that could be used for public housing or environmental restoration or wild animal rehabilitation or any number of better things? Pay out for the government to do those things elsewhere.

Currently, most privately-owned golf courses are taxed at ludicrously low rates. I was going to link sources, but there are individual articles for state after city after county, and the common thread is that golf courses are taxed at a fraction of what they should be. These private courses enjoy subsidies that functionally come out of other incomes.

So... contact your senators, reps, local government, whomever. Raise taxes on golf courses, and maybe we can actually get them to stop spreading.

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In large white text it says “It’s time we criminalize golf” with an asterisk. At the bottom there is smaller white text next to an asterisk saying “A popular sport among middle aged men and rich people. The vast grass-land takes up needless space that could bee used for natural greenery and meadows, or turned into residential areas without cutting down any trees. Golf courses also use pesticides and large quantities of water, making them bad for the environment. Golf must be stopped. Soon.” /ID]