Okay, you're taking this a bit too far, environmentalists. Don't you go messing with the greatest game on earth.
Me when I see one of these numskulls on the course:
Climate activists have targeted 10 golf courses around Spain, plugging up holes to protest the amount of water used to maintain these courses as the country is gripped by a severe drought.
Members of Extinction Rebellion (XR) Spain, along with activists from other climate groups, accessed golf courses in locations in six provinces, including Madrid, Valencia, Ibiza and Navarra. Some groups used cement to fill the holes, others planted seedlings. Protesters also unfurled signs with phrases such as: "Alert: Drought! Golf closed for climate justice" and "water is a common good."
Here's what that looks like:
Yeah, if I'm an owner of a golf course in Spain I'm going with attack dogs. To me, that's the best option, and it seems like something out of a movie so that makes it extra cool.
Other ideas are motion sensor sprinklers.
Or just a simple security guard with a rifle might do the trick.
Here's why the hippies are protesting:
Golf in Spain uses more water than the cities of Barcelona and Madrid combined, XR said in a video posted on Twitter on Sunday. One hole on a golf course requires more than 100,000 liters (22,000 gallons) of water a day to maintain the area around it, according to XR, which cited data from Spanish non-profit Ecologistas en Acción (Ecologists In Action). Only 0.6% of the population plays golf, XR said.
In a statement, the group said the aim of the action was "to denounce the waste of water in the context of one of the worst droughts that Europe has suffered."
XR said it wanted to point out the "cynicism of continuing to allow this type of elitist leisure while Spain dries up and the rural world suffers millions in losses due to the lack of water for their crops."
Now, I don't know if all of that is necessarily true, but I do know one thing: The corporate elite have hijacked the environmental movement. So no matter how much time you spend trying to protest golf courses, your elitist friends will always preserve them.
But good luck in your efforts.
Also, keep your head on a swivel out there at the links. People love this game, and you're messing with the wrong 0.6% of your population if you think you can keep up this nonsense.