Golf will save us from the climate crisis

Tim Bousquet The Halifax Examiner - Oct. 26, 2022

Originally published here

This whole thing is dispiriting. One the one hand, the argument goes: Golf courses bring tourists who spend money and hire local people and revive the economy and that’s good, now shut up.

And yet… Can we talk about the end of the world? We’re in a climate crisis, which is fuelled in large part by people jetting around to do shit like vacation and golf in remote places. Ever-stronger storms are slamming against our shores, but we’ll take serious a proposal to alter a shoreline buffer in order to install golf greens. Economic disruption is occurring everywhere, but rather than talk about self-reliant local economies we shill ourselves as servants for a globe-trotting wealthy elite, with perhaps fickle travel desires.

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