Greenland startup begins shipping glacier ice to cocktail bars in the UAE
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The hubris of humankind astonishes me. We are getting what we deserve.
So much effort and energy wasted, not for a drink. It's not a better drink. It's for ego. That ice is solidified ego. It's like the people that eat endangered animal meat.
Neat idea but have never bothered myself
The pitch was using empty ships that were going from Iceland to Denmark anyways.
Yes. But frozen for a thousand years, so harmless. /s
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