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TIL that there is a flourishing business consisting of digging up mammoth tusks from the Siberian permafrost and selling it to China, as a substitute for prohibited elephant ivory. (www.nhm.ac.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by garfaagel@sh.itjust.works to c/til@lemmy.ca

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[-] cheery_coffee@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 year ago

While this is better than killing elephants, I still don't like it...

[-] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

I mean, they're probably destroying a lot of Siberian ice to do this, so it might even have the same ecological impact as something like mining, I think

[-] lvl7susceptible@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah. Permafrost has a lot of carbon stored in it. The more digging humans do, the more is released into the atmosphere.

It also starts a chain reaction and causes more to melt.

https://youtu.be/HvKpnaXYUPU

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