Pardon?
The ancient ebola viruses locked in ice for thousands of years as some rich asshole takes a sip:
I think this is a plot point from the game Talos Principle. Melting arctic ice releases a virus that wipes out humanity leaving only machines to become intelligent and carry on civilization.
It’s the plot point, but also spoilers, kind of? Part of the game is discovering what happened.
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The Great Lakes used to be a source of ice for peoples ice boxes. There were railroads built to move it to cities. In my town there was a huge building full of ice and sawdust that would keep it frozen into the summer.
There hasn’t been so much as a skim of ice on the shore this year.
We weren’t depleting it fast enough, let’s get capitalism to help (some more)!
Sure. Why the fuck not. There’s more money in killing the planet than saving it, and humanity has decided that short term profits are more important than investing in our future, so might as well go full throttle.
‘It’s environmentally friendly because we haven’t used any energy to freeze it’
/s
Well it’s all going to melt soon anyway. Might as well cash out
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.
Cocktail with boring freezer ice: 40 AED
Cocktail with dope glacier ice: 400 AED
You go girl, milk those stupid rich people for all you can. I sure hope they are just pretending to transport ice and are actually selling them frozen tap water. Getting rich people to pay lots of money for stupid shit is basically wealth redistribution.
Not the Onion? Not the onion.
