“They gather tusks like mushrooms,” says Aleksei Tikhonov, director, St. Petersburg’s Zoological museum on Russian ivory hunters who are getting a boost as global warming softens the Siberian permafrost and exposes previously hidden woolly-mammoth skeletons (via Newsweek).
The quote sure brings up a funny mental image of people running around in icy sludge gathering precious ivory. The issue though is far from jocular.
There are other “business opportunities” that are coming up thanks to global warming. Oil exploration companies are rushing to the Arctics where the ice has melted eager to drill some more oil. Let ‘em bloody ice melt some more — we’ll be there to drill the oil!
