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There is very little discussion on the forum about the environmental sustainability of the horse racing industry.
I became fascinated with the sport growing up in the 70’s but my environmental conscience can see the inherent unsustainability. This action of a Coolmore company is part of a large swathe of land acquisitions and land restructuring to facilitate more tillage. It is now a social sustainability issue in South Tipperary as well.
It saddens me to see the people best placed to do good doing harm.
If you dig deep enough, quite a few of the business activities of The Lads are less than savoury. I believe they make plenty of money out of care homes through charging extortionate rates.
As for hedgerows: I remember when some lovely hedgerows were torn up in the countryside near to the house where I grew up. It was done to turn a few fields into one super sized field.
The result was the natural wind breakers were ripped up and now the wind whistles into all the near by houses, making them freezing in winter.
On the subject of environmental sustainability, I sent in a Talking Point to Luck On Sunday a couple of years ago, asking how racing can become net zero with the increased international travel involved, especially on the flat, and both Luck and his guest (can’t remember who it was) admitted that it’s a problem but couldn’t offer any semblance of a solution.
Nick Luck’s carbon footprint must be absolutely hideous, and he isn’t the only culprit.
I don’t imagine the lorries transporting horses from Newmarket to Hamilton Park are electric.
“Nick Luck’s carbon footprint must be absolutely hideous, and he isn’t the only culprit.”
I don’t imagine David Attenborough’s carbon footprint over the course of his life looks too rosy, either.
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