While ridiculous, there’s interesting context here.
- Greenland has little to no economy
- The ice is mined from ice that has already broken away from the glacier, thus not reducing any more than nature has already
- Cargo ships bringing frozen food used to leave empty, now that same fuel is used to transport ice back instead of going to waste
- The founder has always dreamed of a sustainable economy for Greenland
- He is conflicted about how his work to do this in a sustainable way is being taken
Lots of gray here.
Wow ok, that makes more sense.
And glaciers are still not protected from idiots doing stuff like this because?
Because lemmings are not reading the articles, just like redditors. Some things never change.
I’m guessing because https://lemmy.ml/comment/7203233
Hunh. I’ve not seen this zombie outbreak movie yet. Interesting take on the “patient zero” trope, though. 🤔
edit: Sorry, forgot the /s 🤪
It’s been done, just not a movie:
Um. Heh. MtG was not the first by a long shot, and clearly named the card after John Carpenter’s classic, to be fair. 🤗
Wealth is much too concentrated in the hands of a few people. People do this as the planet heats up and poor die in the streets simply because they were born somewhere else.
I see no future problems with this ever. Definitely not going to run out of ice any time soon!
/s just in case.
UAE should really catch up with the newest refrigeration techniques, ice trade is a bit old fashioned.
It’s just fucking water lol
Yes, but with a small chance of unknown deadly permafrost bacteria, therefore the price difference. ;)
If we could make sure the ice being sent contains some form of the plague that all these rich idiots get, we could really do a whole lot of good real quick.
I wonder how long until they decide to cut out the middle man and just tell their patrons that its “glacier” ice.
Great
It’s all gonna melt soon so might as well make a quick buck off of it right? /s
