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[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago

if you can think of a better way to get ice I'd like to hear it

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

A hyper loop that goes from underneath the arctic to the UAE

[-] GaryLeChat@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 years ago

The workers yearn for the ice quarries!

[-] ggwithgg@feddit.nl 20 points 2 years ago

How does this in any way contribute to a green transition?

[-] Quimps@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

YES! Finally! A question that I know something about!

Okay so the actual owner of this company (The greenlandic arm anyway) is Ittu Julius Konrad Karl Heinrich Lilliendahl (Yes that is one name, it's Greenland that's just how it is) who used to do event coordination stuff (And they're going out of business because he fucking sucked at it) and runs a taxi cab company. The reason this is being sold as a green initiative is because that way you get certain benefits from the government.
Their argument is twofold 1: They argue this isn't that bad carbon wise because a lot of shipping containers are empty because of the Greenlandic trading imbalance so this actually makes sense and 2: It's water you guys, that's eco stuff
The guy in the picture is a part owner (like 5% or something) who used to (I don't know if he still does) work as an engineer/handyman/landlord for a company that rents out apartments, does mine engineering consulting and minor construction work called 60 degrees Greenland.
If it gets accepted as a Green transition company it will be done because it's not a fishing boat. Greenlandic corporations have tried selling mines as part of a green transition, it's nuts and I hate it.

[-] ggwithgg@feddit.nl 5 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the explanation, but wow. This feels very much like bureaucratic lunacy

[-] Quimps@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Think standard multi "entrepreneur" grifter.

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

Idk... this is just stupid...

[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

Critical support for the Inuit ripping off bougie dipshits by selling them overpriced ice.

[-] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

Daily reminder that Greenland is not yet an independent country despite its population being 90% ethnically Inuit

[-] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

First as farce second as tragedy

[-] SovietWaveGoddess@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

Green transition is when...

changing the fucking icecubes?

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

Don't let the Yankee soda megacorporations learn of this, they'll start shrinking the ice caps by hand

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