I work for a jewelry company that sells lab grown diamonds and we recently started a push towards marketing lower priced engagement rings with lab grown center stones. This marketing of theirs makes the owners of my company feel uncomfortable marketing these rings now.
De Beers admits defeat over man-made diamonds
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> Sadly, it's hard to be a pragmatic optimist and say "Yea it's probably going to change but there's also nothing we can do about it without killing millions of people through economic destruction and we'll likely adapt anyway (humans can adapt their civilizations in the time scales of climate change - see the rapid growth of Chinese cities), so let's not worry too much." That's not really pragmatic optimism, it's in…
But in real life, do you actually expect we will stop climate change before it causes any serious harm? When do you think we'll start doing that? We've done almost nothing so far but what we have done is incrementally developed technology to allow humans to comfortably survive severe weather like storms, floods, and droughts. So I say pragmatic because it's a continuation of what we already do, and optimistic because…
> But in real life, do you actually expect we will stop climate change before it causes any serious harm?
No, we obviously can't, it's already causing serious harm. We can mitigate the rate at which it proceeds so that it's within the range that, with concurrent reasonably acheivable adaptation, doesn't cause global, cataclysmic harm.
Moreover, if we don't act to mitigate it, it will eventually—and in not too long—reach a tipping point where that is no longer the case.
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Lol, finally someone with the same opinion as me. Yes, climate change is real, but it would be more expensive to stop it than to adapt to it
Nice to meet you too! It's a pity that so many people insist on taking extremist positions then pigeon-holing everyone into one of them. I just got called equivalent to a climate change denier, that's how pervasive the tribalism is.
> It's a pity that so many people insist on taking extremist positions
The fact that your opinion doesn't align with the usual axis doesn't make it less extremist, it just makes it extreme in an unusual direction.
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Nah, you need all sorts of quality grades for drilling, polishing, etc.
No you don't. Those aren't the hard parts. You use the same high quality, industrial machines to cut and polish synthetic diamonds as you do natural diamonds, and you get the same result. The only quality grades that make sense are color and perfection for natural diamonds, or maybe cutting grades for antique hand-ground diamonds that weren't done well.
For polishing and drilling marble, for example. Not for polishing diamonds. The diamonds are different qualities.
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#455"The new synthetic diamonds will come in pink, blue and white, and the stones will contain a tiny Lightbox logo. De Beers said the logo won't be visible to the naked eye, but it will make the stones easily identifiable as lab-grown." So de beers will intentionally damage their synthetic diamonds. Sure I wanna buy synthetic diamonds from you guys.
An authentic natural diamond also has an identification mark. http://www.e-worlddiamondbourse.com/Services/LaserEngraving
But again, this is them damaging the diamond just so they can distinguish between real and synthetic. There's no difference, but they want there to be a difference, so they made one. So, lets be clear, a natural diamond does not have an identification mark.