But how do you have such a big context window???

But.... But.... Number must go up!

All of those existed way before capitalism. Except the ones that require technology more advanced than what they had available.

Yes, even in Wii sports the golf courses contributed to global warming, that's why we have storm island

Yes, because if kids see golf in video games, it will make them want to golf in real life

most lawns are monoculture, water hungry and non native

the native focused setups being the few alternatives but those are not really lawns

Edit: disregard this comment, I mistranslated lawn in to garden/backyard, i am not native english

Filling your lawn with chemicals is a problem

Nile Mr. Green sweating in the corner

Yeah, I was prepared to completely agree with everything, but "lawns"? I have ~100m² of grass where my child and dog are free to play within the boundaries. Is this capitalistic of me?

While some of the feats of large scale agriculture seem impressive, the fossil fuel industry and those who sell the machinery seem to have inflated the numbers quite a lot.

Biodiverse landscapes grow a higher density of food with fewer pesticides and herbicides, and better soil health and water retention in the long term. The problem: you need those pesky people to maintain and harvest complex biodiverse systems, and they want livable wages! Best call them savages and uncivilized, drive them away in the name of progess and force everyone to use your machines, fertilizer, pesticides, machinery and fuels.

But hey, we all are going hard right in the Benelux, so in a decade you guys will probably have to pay some private equity company a monthly subscription for them to hold the dikes closed for you lol. Or maybe they will just be so fucked and non-maintained through privatization that the will all fail anyway because it isn't profitable enough

Those aren't lawns:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lawn

And maybe add "we can get up there without putting tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere"

Nobody wants to get datacenter chlamydia

Golf in trimmed greens is noob-level, give me extreme golf in an untrimmed mangrove

Miniature golf is great.

Golf courses requiring the lushest green grass that requires a massive amount of maintenance can go fuck itself.

I feel like one possible future where I go to jail is when a conversation goes like

Me: "That thing you're doing is unnecessary, bad for the environment, and bad for society."

Them: "But I like it"

Me, screaming "BUT I LIKE IT" while I punch them in the face over and over and over and over.

Liking something is not a trump card that supersedes all other concerns, and yet some galaxy brains act like it is. Much more respect for people who can admit "I don't care about the environment or society" out loud.

I have had fun golfing through heath and forests with a minigolf club.
There is no need for the pesticide and fertilizer ridden, green wasteland that golf normally gets played on.