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Countries across the world use more land for golf courses than wind or solar energy.
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One was here long af. Other is new.
How can be more if one than the other? :o
One costs massive amounts of water to maintain. Other brings free green energy.
One is a favorite pasttime of rich (and not onky) folks, one is built only "recently".
The one that's been here long af has also been considered to be environmentally and socially problematic for long af.
Golf courses should have been dismantled long ago.