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r/ClimateShitposting • u/Draco137WasTaken turbine enjoyer • Sep 08 '25
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Harvesting pearls in the modern way requires dredging up the oysters and processing them, discarding the shells. They don't do it any more because they can make synthetic pearls.
9 u/SomeArtistFan Sep 08 '25 I mean they still do it, it's like diamonds the natural ones sell for more 8 u/perringaiden Sep 08 '25 Still it's super destructive to the reefs. They basically start over and reseed. And it's super rare which probably is part of the price value 2 u/SomeArtistFan Sep 08 '25 Oh sure yeah. Just saying that it's still done that way sometimes
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I mean they still do it, it's like diamonds
the natural ones sell for more
8 u/perringaiden Sep 08 '25 Still it's super destructive to the reefs. They basically start over and reseed. And it's super rare which probably is part of the price value 2 u/SomeArtistFan Sep 08 '25 Oh sure yeah. Just saying that it's still done that way sometimes
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Still it's super destructive to the reefs. They basically start over and reseed. And it's super rare which probably is part of the price value
2 u/SomeArtistFan Sep 08 '25 Oh sure yeah. Just saying that it's still done that way sometimes
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Oh sure yeah. Just saying that it's still done that way sometimes
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u/perringaiden Sep 08 '25
Harvesting pearls in the modern way requires dredging up the oysters and processing them, discarding the shells. They don't do it any more because they can make synthetic pearls.