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.
You answered all the questions I had when I saw this. It does really depend on the context. Another positive thing might be that the amount of ice they are able to transfer to be used as ice cubes in a drink is less fresh water melt that would have gone into the oceans (affecting things like the AMOC), which is one of many concerns about Greenland’s melting ice.
The water from the ice will find its way to the oceon whether it melts in Greenland or the UAE though?
Yes, with different effects. I’m not saying this will really have a measurable influence, but melt into Greenland waters is far worse than in most other places. Just look into papers discussing the AMOC slowdown and its causes.
Well, arguably, maybe not.
Relocating it into more distant water cycles kinda dilutes the dilution, so to speak. Rather than dumping a bunch of fresh water directly into salt water, it lets it trickle back slowly and gives ocean water a bit of a buffer to disolve more saline, and gives it a chance to get stuck on terra firma somehow.
I didnt expect a good explanation for this, but harvesting broken glacier isnt a bad idea on paper.
Wow ok, that makes more sense.
And glaciers are still not protected from idiots doing stuff like this because?
I’m guessing because https://lemmy.ml/comment/7203233
Because lemmings are not reading the articles, just like redditors. Some things never change.
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.
Great
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.
how do you not get it
How often do you interact with the super wealthy from Saudi Arabia? They don’t like the poors, I feel I’d be safe.
am safe if they die before they go on airplane
Private jets are kinda their thing. It’s unlikely you ever encounter the super rich, unless you’re their staff.
It’s all gonna melt soon so might as well make a quick buck off of it right? /s
I wonder how long until they decide to cut out the middle man and just tell their patrons that its “glacier” ice.
