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A new company is shipping Arctic ice from Greenland to Dubai
- nocsi 2y agoAnd Saudi Arabia maintains several pieces of land w/ water rights to import & extract water as alfaalfa. You’d think they’d leverage their oil and build out desalination plants
- rad_gruchalski 2y agoYes, we need to pay more for CO₂ in Europe. That’ll show 'em.
- namaria 2y agoYou think reducing carbon emissions is about 'owning' some group of people?
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- rad_gruchalski 2y agoWhere have I said anything about “owning” anyone.
- namaria 2y ago> That’ll show 'em. Don't make this about the vocabulary used. Positing climate related policy as something to do with "showing 'em up" (or in other words "owning 'em") is a super weird take.
- rad_gruchalski 2y agoI don’t follow. You try to educate me and I don’t care. Take it as a sarcasm.
- namaria 2y agoEducate you? I wouldn't waste my time so. Just calling you out on your bs son
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- mjhay 2y agoA profligate waste that's very on-brand for Dubai. Glacial ice doesn't taste great anyway, because it's pretty much distilled water.
- namaria 2y agoDubai is gonna make for some very striking ruins in a few decades...
- YeahThisIsMe 2y agoIf you can taste the ice cubes in your drink, there's probably something wrong with them.
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- SailToSki 2y agoTheir website appears to be targeting hotels, restaurants, and bars. I find it hard to believe that patrons are going to know where the ice in their mixed drink is from.
- kalupa 2y agoi'm sure the drinks menus will prominently market and upsell it as a luxury you pay even more for
- viccis 2y agoIf you're an establishment selling to wealthy consumers, which is the market in the kind of places they're targeting, then your clientele does respond to kind of outrageous gimmicks like this. They're seeking novelty and pedigree. Then it comes down to: if you can entice customers to pay some X up charge, pay Y for the ice, and X > Y, then it's worth it for everyone involved to ship that stuff around.
- netsharc 2y agoI want to start a venture where in the small print I say that it's not actual Arctic ice, or that the ice is made in a fridge named "The Arctic" located in the corner of the kitchen we've named "Greenland". Or I could just sell certificates that are as useful as those CO2 compensation certificates...
- walthamstow 2y agoWhat is old shall become new again https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-king-s-cross-ice-well-london-england https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-king-s-cross-ice-wel...
- wodenokoto 2y agoA bit of ice sold to Dubai is nothing compared to the hauls of water shipped around the world. This is plastic straw level of complaining.
- hcfman 2y agoSurely taking cold things away from the waters there contributes to the warming of the area? In order for that ice to melt it has to take warm from the area surrounding it doesn't it? Taking that ice away then is highly morally bankrupt, surely.