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Total is 20% higher than thought and may have implications for collapse of globally important north Atlantic ocean currents https://archive.is/mGnUr
minus-squareroastedDeflatorOPlinkfedilink0•edit-210 months agoIn the same time it looks like the following is happening as well. Elite cocktail bars in the UAE have a new way to draw in customers: luxury ice from arctic glaciers - Business Insider A company in Greenland called Arctic Ice is harvesting ice from the country’s shrinking glaciers. The company sells the “purest ice in the world” to elite cocktail bars in Dubai to chill drinks. Greenland’s ice sheet has been melting at an alarming pace in recent years. (…)
minus-squareroastedDeflatorOPlinkfedilink0•10 months agoThat sounds very plausible. Still, the luxury ice article kinda reminded me of something that a friend of mine says: Capitalism will exist until the last oxygen bottle is sold to one of the richest people left. Of course, I totally do hope they are wrong.
In the same time it looks like the following is happening as well.
Elite cocktail bars in the UAE have a new way to draw in customers: luxury ice from arctic glaciers - Business Insider
The purest ice is made in a lab
That sounds very plausible.
Still, the luxury ice article kinda reminded me of something that a friend of mine says:
Capitalism will exist until the last oxygen bottle is sold to one of the richest people left.
Of course, I totally do hope they are wrong.