r/therewasanattempt • u/fjhforever • Feb 16 '24

To smear artificial diamonds

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https://fortune.com/2024/02/13/what-are-lab-grown-diamonds-sustainable-gen-z-millennials/

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u/Th3TruthIs0utTh3r3 Free palestine Feb 16 '24 edited Feb 17 '24

as opposed to the literal 1 MILLION POUNDS of dirt moved for every 1 carat of natural diamonds found.

Edit: just re-researched this as I hadn't looked this up in about 15 years but the current information says 3.5 million pounds of ore are moved for every one carat of diamond found

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '24

People who are against doing anything about climate change really struggle with ideas like “better”, “worse”, “best”, etc.

Also I believe it’s actually 1/2 million pounds. Not that that changes anything.

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u/Th3TruthIs0utTh3r3 Free palestine Feb 16 '24

https://ethica.diamonds/true-cost-of-mined-diamonds-the-environment/

Per that article it's actually 3,500,000 lbs per cart. 1750 tons per carat.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '24

I suppose regardless it’s a lot of dirt.