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Here's a brilliant one: "Gen Z and millennials proudly wear ‘lab-grown’ diamonds, oblivious to the fact they’re made from burning coal in China and India" https
by grues-dinner 2y ago
Here's a brilliant one: "Gen Z and millennials proudly wear ‘lab-grown’ diamonds, oblivious to the fact they’re made from burning coal in China and India" https://fortune.com/article/disadvantages-lab-grown-diamonds-gen-z-millennials-environment-cost-price-coal-china/ https://fortune.com/article/disadvantages-lab-grown-diamonds...
Like what the actual fuck does Isabella O'Malley think your average South African, Australian, Botswanan or Russian diamond mine is powered by, and how much energy is required to dig out, move and crush tonnes of rock per carat found? And then dump the spoil in huge sterile mounds you can see from space. And how much was she paid to wring her hands about it?
And if all the rock moving sounds like a lot of energy, it is, around double what a lab grown takes. And it's a damn sight safer for the miners too.
- cyberax 2y ago> "Gen Z and millennials proudly wear ‘lab-grown’ diamonds, oblivious to the fact they’re made from burning coal in China and India" Hey! I like my diamonds to be powered by coal from South Africa. They have that nice distinct scent of apartheid!
- rad_gruchalski 2y agoWhat do those Chinese diamonds smell of?
- lazide 2y agoNon-racially driven authoritarian dictatorship - mintier.