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  • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com
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    9 months ago

    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.

    • 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.


    The whole conversation, including how the ships are already there, details on economy, etc, are in this thread: https://lemmy.world/comment/6556590

    • Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      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.

      • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com
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        9 months ago

        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.

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          9 months ago

          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.

          Some Greenlandic music for you