Can we please stop using football pitches as a measurement? Using fucking hectares (or acres) or at least square kilometres when you talk about land sizes like every normal person.
The bad thing about football pitches is, that they dont have a standard size.
which makes American football fields more appropriate as a unit of area, as they are of fixed size.
Football pitches (european football ones) do have a standard size, as defined by the Laws of the Game, 105×68m
Interesting, i looked it up and at least for the German “Bundesliga” (national league) it does not have a standard size. Also the sizes vary for German and international matches.
At least that’s what their official website says.
That’s horrifying. If it continues, there will be nowhere to play football.
Why the fuck do we have so many football pitches? /j
they don’t anymore.
didn’t you read? they are losing 600 per day
Can we not use football fields and such as measurements like filthy Americans? Especially in a freaking academic context.
Europe is losing basically 7.84x10^6 hamburgers worth of cropland.
Europe loses about 1,500 sq km (580 sq miles) a year to construction. About 9,000 sq km of land – an area the size of Cyprus – was turned green to grey between 2018 and 2023, according to the data. That is the equivalent of almost 30 sq km a week, or 600 football pitches a day.
A great example of why football pitches are used. People cannot visualize an area of 1500 km², because nobody has ever seen such an area while being aware/told that that is the size of said area.
Most people in Europe knows roughly how large a football pitch is, and might even be able to visualize an area covered by 600 of those.
Although I guess “4km²/day” isn’t that bad to visualize either.
1500 km² is around the size of Åland
People cannot visualize an area of 1500 km²
That’s where hectares are useful and a sensible, well known metric.
How do you guys reach a point where you’re arguing for less effective science communication? They’re summing up values as universally recognized objects. Wow! That sounds like the perfect way to communicate with people.
It’s such a no brainer. The “anything but metric” meme turned people into dorks.
Only downside is, that most people usually dont know how mich a hectare is. It usually only gets used in the context of farming (at least I havent heard it outside that context)
How much is that in square-fathoms?
Approximately 25000 Renault 10
No no no, I need that in imperial washing machines.
