The ancient ebola viruses locked in ice for thousands of years as some rich asshole takes a sip:
this post was submitted on 09 Jan 2024
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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.
Edit: The game is 10 years old people and this is barely a spoiler.
It's the plot point, but also spoilers, kind of? Part of the game is discovering what happened.
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If this were a plot point in a novel I would think it too on the nose and unrealistic. This is the fucking world we live in
Countries with non-renewable resources being scalped by profiteers ...who runs out first?!? Stay tuned ...
Oh no, the world is now seriously doing what was a funny satirical subplot in the movie Brewster's Millions.
Movies are not meant as instructions people, cmon!
The 'Torment Nexus' meme is evergreen
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.
We weren't depleting it fast enough, let's get capitalism to help (some more)!
This sounds like something out of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Something you'd read just before the Earth gets blown up.
Not the Onion? Not the onion.
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.
assuming that big pieces near the glacier are also being picked up, wouldn't they still help keep the temperature of the seas near the glaciers down therefore helping reduce melting?
My understanding is it's actually the opposite, due to impacts to AMOC:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-29226-8
In today’s warming climate, the persistent North Atlantic cooling anomaly off the southeast coast of Greenland is thought to be caused by the accelerating input of meltwater from the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) and considered an indicator of a weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). Modelling studies suggest that increased freshwater input from Greenland has the potential to slow down AMOC in the future, thus substantially weakening heat transport to the North Atlantic and potentially driving positive ice sheet-ocean feedbacks
Basically, the melt reduces surface temps, and slows the AMOC (bad):
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/amoc.html
If the AMOC does continue to slow down, however, it could have far-reaching climate impacts. For example, if the planet continues to warm, freshwater from melting ice at the poles would shift the rain belt in South Africa, causing droughts for millions of people. It would also cause sea level rise across the U.S. East Coast.
EDIT: I am no expert here, for context.
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.
this is the way to go
'It's environmentally friendly because we haven't used any energy to freeze it'
/s
What could go wrong?
Billionaire drinking 10000 yr old Mammoth piss? Fine by me.
Well it's all going to melt soon anyway. Might as well cash out
basically this.
With near-infinitely more pollutants!
Basically trying to put themselves out of a job.
The ice can't melt if we remove it all
