If you look at their current sourcing it's fine. They're not cutting apart glaciers, they're gathering it from parts that have calved and will just melt apart regardless.

Greenland has a right to sell their natural resources as much as anyone else, and the sad thing is this admittedly ludicrous enterprise is more profitable for less environmental damage than most things.

[–] Hubi@feddit.de 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The problem is all the carbon that is emitted to transport the ice from Greenland halfway around the world for no other reason than bullshit marketing.

[–] FlapKap@feddit.dk 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Since Greenland Imports a lot and doesn't really have a lot of export, a big part of the trip would be sailed anyway, just with empty containers

[–] Flughoernchen@feddit.de 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

People forget it's not just the shipping itself. First of all, ships just like every other vehicle need more energy to move the heavier they are. Secondly the ice needs to be cooled for most of the trip and portable coolers are real energy guzzlers. So without doing the maths transporting ice from Greenland to Dubai is much more harmful than ships with empty containers on the same way.

[–] tryptaminev@feddit.de 0 points 7 months ago

The first point doesn't hold though. it is always better to have a ship run with cargo than without, in terms of efficiency. Afterall the point of the ship moving is to transport cargo.

For the cooling i am also sceptical. It was common all over Europe to trade with ice cut out of glaciers and frozen lakes until the invention of the cooling pump made electrical fridges a thing. If you store the ice in somewhat well insulated containers, it will cool itself quite decently for long travels. Icecellars were common to hold Ice that was collected in winter and lasted for cooling all throughout the year even in the mediteranian areas.

I also find this business obscene, but i do not see, that it would be more harmful, than sending empty ships around the world.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but have you considered that this ice is icier than other ice?

[–] Hubi@feddit.de 0 points 7 months ago

Okay now I'm convinced

[–] nis@feddit.dk 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

...ice which has never been polluted by any human being.

shows picture of human being polluting said ice

[–] onion@feddit.de 0 points 7 months ago

Why is his face so punchable