George RR Martin is the creator of game of thrones, not the show runners.

Oh wait, the original example was lotr, which also was based on books lol. Nevermind me, carry on.

You know what uses three times the amount of water per acre? Corn. And almonds use about ten times more water than corn.

And we get food out of that input, unlike a golf course where you get nothing of value.

And people have only just started caring about lawns, that use two orders of magnitude more water, fertilizer, and land than golf courses.

Have you seen a golf course before? They’re literally lawns.