@Lana Because we all know that shipping large, heavy things in sub-zero temperatures half way around the world is part of any country's green transition!

@Lana So we can now assume there were glacier cocktails at the climate summit in Dubai. How very darling.

@Lana

This feels like the plot of a mediocre sci-fi horror movie.

Bacteria, trapped for millions of years in ice is released because a rich A** hole in UAE wanted glacier ice for his drink. Now it's horribly mutating who ever comes in contact with it.

@Lana bad: this.

Good: they'll be out of business soon enough

Wait no. That's also bad.

@Lana Gawd we’re pathetic creatures sometimes. How can we monetize this, rather than how can we reverse this?

@Lana for a moment i thought that was mr beast

@Lana we’re doomed.

@Lana ... if they say so...

@Lana @DoomsdaysCW We just said something about frozen viruses and bacteria, didn't we?

@Lana
And in a few years, they'll be exporting fine Greenland wines.

@Lana .... they what :neocat_peek_knife:​

THEY WHAT?! :neocat_knife:​

@Lana

Because polar bear urine is great for cocktails.

@Lana Someone is gonna discover a new disease drinking glacier cocktails.

@Lana How the fuck this "can be part of Greenland green's transition"? oO

@Lana I want to know how much they're paying the native Greenlanders to do the hard work compared to how much they charge in the UAE for one fancy cube.

Greenlanders are one of the most hated first nations in Europe. Makes me so mad.

@Lana this is one of the news stories I want the Aliens investigating our ruins in 10,000 years time to see.
Maybe put it on a metal disk in a vault on the Moon, just so everybody knows what we did.

@Lana @Lazarou
Next headline
"Mystery illness originating in the UAE, flight schedules unaffected."

@Lana Good grief, "green transition" should not about "turning Greenland green", I think they misunderstood this part.

@Lana
A couple of years ago, a chocolate company decided it was a good idea to transport arctic seawater to a facility that would boil it off to produce sea salt for one of their products.

I think scratching my head over that one is responsible for most of my hair loss.

@Lana Every local Whole Foods carries a water brand called Liquid Death that is shipped around the earth from the alps, so this is not something that is exclusively the domain of rich petrostates.

@Lana Bah - this has been done before - by us super environmentalists in Norway: https://www.theguardian.com/vital-signs/2015/apr/04/svaice-ice-cubes-glacier-melt-cocktails-bars

Matches well with yesterdays vote for deep-sea mining in Norway as well: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/09/norway-set-to-approve-deep-sea-mining-despite-environmental-concerns

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@Lana
I have no idea how glaciers work but-
But I would be kinda happy if it was at least salty enough to ruin rich people drinks or had some kind of ancient flesh eating bacteria in it or something

@Lana hoomins are AMAZING. or do i mean stupifying?

@Lana

Back in the pre-mechanical refrigeration days, ice was harvested from North America and Norway and shipped to Britain to allow those who could afford it, frozen desserts and cocktails in summer and so on.

Later, when there was refrigeration, it was a selling point that it was "natural" ice.

Now I refer to modern climate change deniers/skeptics I come across as "Ice Shippers".

@Lana Reminds me how at a job in around 1985 a conservative co-worker insisted that wealthy people sending their remains (after death of course) into space was true innovative and what space exploration is all about.

@Lana I want a lemonade stand at the apocalypse.

@Lana In the nick of time, if they wait any longer all the ice would be molten.