Cross post 196
My COVID senses are tingling. I'm hoping for something small to ruin the parade like maybe just Jurassic diarrhea. But if it's a new generic mamalian HIV super big that spreads through water, we'll be in big trouble.
Is this the most ridiculous bullshit I will read all day?
I sure hope so, but I doubt it...
It is not, but only because I read quite a bit of ridiculous bullshit. I'm looking at you, Congressional Republicans.
So while the rest of us are worrying about shrinking glaciers, Dubai is actively ice mining glaciers and shipping them to the middle of the desert so rich people can have fancy cocktails. Out-fucking-standing.
No, this is exported by Greenland.
They're using only chunks that have already separated, transporting it on outgoing cargo ships that are already empty and it becomes one of the few export products for Greenland.
Weird idea, but there are a few redeeming points if you look at the full story.
I'm cool with it in that state. But my concern here is that while it starts out innocent, if demand increases, it's only a matter of time until they start mining it and chartering more ships to transport it. Especially in an economy like Greenland's.
This same pattern has been followed a thousand times in the past. Lots of instances of abusing our natural resources start out innocently.
Okay, that's a lot less troubling than I expected. Thanks for the clarification.
It's okay, I can only imagine the 10,000 year old bacteria those guys are gonna be drinking with that ice when it thaws, it all balances out.
ooh, i loved that episode of Stargate!
*100,000 year old bacteria. It's never infected any human being!
Little bit of salt and lemon sounds nice with it
"Yeah our ice is mined in... uh... Greenland. That will be $200"
"Dumbass"
My bar serves water wayyy older than that.
Had to ask myself what kind of bars they even had on Dubai. Apparently they don't take the alcohol thing as seriously as I thought.
It's Dubai bro..
So this is how the Arctic plague begins
Guess I'll post this again:
I put this in the cross post, bit figure it belongs here, too:
While ridiculous, there's interesting context here.
Lots of gray here.
The whole conversation, including how the ships are already there, details on economy, etc, are in this thread: https://lemmy.world/comment/6556590
Greenland has little to no economy because it has a population less than 60 000. And they still have to fly the ice to the middle east from Greenland which is hardly climate friendly.
Cause vs correlation, and untrue. There is no economy because there is only fish. The population dwindles because of immigration. As for flying the ice, that does not happen. Read the link.
Greenland's per capita GDP is 13th in the world. They're doing fine. Greenland has also always had a small population. It's hardly fair to call it dwindling, when it's about double today what it was in the 60s. Also a large part of the emigration is because the choices for higher education are very limited. Not because of a lack of industry or employment. As there is more than enough mining, fishing and tourism to sustain a population of 57000.
As for shipping the ice, I'm sure you aren't going to try to tell me that keeping ice refrigerated from nuuk to Dubai as well as the extra fuel used to transport (ships displace more water when they have cargo) have less of a carbon footprint than simply freezing water in Dubai.
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Some Greenlandic music for you
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Thanks, that's an interesting balance.
Look at that punchable face, just waiting to become 3x its current size
Mmmm it's like playing the lottery but if you win you get to be patient zero for the ancient virus that ends up wiping out humanity.
That's why I only drink 151 on the rocks.
Gimme that ✨prehistoric bacteria✨
Rich people sicken me.
Literally and on purpose, because it's profitable
It's environmentally friendly because they don't waste energy to freeze the water. It's already frozen! /s
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