Surely the obvious answer is take up smoking and use it for its intended purpose, to ensure the poor beast didn’t die in vain…
That's a pretty boring option compared to the crack pipe idea.
Insertion tool for suppositories/Anusol 'bullets'. ??
I also find it slightly odd that most people on here are expressing such distaste for it – why is an ivory cigarette holder more distasteful than a leather belt for instance, why is the life of an elephant more valuable than that of a cow?
Because as far as I'm aware we don't make a belt and then throw away the rest of the cow.
Remember the horse meat thing? Why is horse meat different from beef?
As you say, the 'scandal' was due to contamination, ergo it was mislabelling.
How we (as a species) consume animals is wholly cultural. We eat lamb without a second thought, yet the local takeaway serving Puppy Madras or Kentucky Fried Kitten would make national news. Meanwhile, you're not going to get many Muslims eating a bacon butty but you might get a rat kebab in Vietnam.
I also find it slightly odd that most people on here are expressing such distaste for it
What I find odd is that the people outraged by it will have a carbon footprint bigger by a huge margin than the person who smoked using that ivory. They'll not notice the environmental damage that their decked and concrete gardens have caused, or their over-reliance on cars and summer holidays. They'll happily use businesses that are destroying vast swathes of the world for profit, and eat food rammed full of monocultured crops, and mutter about eco-terrorists needing harsher sentences. But, smashing up an ivory trinket will make the world a better place as far as they are concerned, and then they can carry on with their polluting lifestyles.
you might get a rat kebab in Vietnam.
This is why I only eat in McDonalds when I travel abroad.
To go along with the leather point:
Fun vegetarian fact The best argument for veganism is there is no such thing as a dairy cow. They all end up in the same place, it's just that dairy cattle are exploited in the meantime and some dairy farms don't make an overall profit on the animal until it's sold for meat. To all intents and purposed the animal is still killed for milk production (to make it financially viable).
Counter argument - I like cheese
What I find odd is that the people outraged by it will have a carbon footprint bigger by a huge margin than the person who smoked using that ivory. They’ll not notice the environmental damage that their decked and concrete gardens have caused, or their over-reliance on cars and summer holidays. They’ll happily use businesses that are destroying vast swathes of the world for profit, and eat food rammed full of monocultured crops, and mutter about eco-terrorists needing harsher sentences. But, smashing up an ivory trinket will make the world a better place as far as they are concerned, and then they can carry on with their polluting lifestyles.
+1
I don't think history is not going to judge the collective western population 1950-2050 kindly.
Could you make it in to a miniature kazoo?
Counter argument – I like cheese
Which, really, is the only argument.
People complain about "preachy vegans" but as a near-lifelong vegetarian I've heard every argument going from meat eaters who immediately go on the defensive when they find out, and 99% of it is nonsense. There are exceptions of course, but Western society in general doesn't need to eat meat, we do so because we enjoy it. Which is perfectly fine, but don't dress it up as something it isn't by harping on about depth perception or some such when the last time you went hunting was in the chilled aisle in Waitrose.
See also, Americans and guns. They have them because they like them, any other argument is either misdirection or denial. The whole point of the Second Amendment was to prevent a nutter getting in charge and running amok with absolute power so that's working out well for them.
I think i am going to try something new.
Crack pipe it is.
What I find odd is that the people outraged by it will have a carbon footprint bigger by a huge margin than the person who smoked using that ivory.
Up until a couple of weeks ago I would have assumed this is true, but then I read Not the End of the World by Hannah Ritchie and discovered that our per capita CO2 has dropped a LOT this century:
Taken from https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions
Which is not to say it's time to sit on our laurels or ignore other environmental actions, but to show that progress has happened and contiues to do so.
Anyway, back to the OP - If it were me I'd probably just smash it and chuck it for no more noble reason than I find it's presence irritating.
Just looking at that graph, what's going on during the world wars? I would assume domestic emissions are lower (consumption of everything reduced as resources go into the war effort?) but wars generally involve increased consumption of fossil fuels, increased mining and refining of metals, etc, etc. Does the former really outweigh the latter to that extent? Obviously the population reduction is good for the environment but there are more palatable ways of going about that.
And there's no similar dip during lockdown which I would have expected, given how little we were travelling for instance.
How much of the recent decline can be attributed to 'offshoring' our emissions? For instance if something is made in China and then imported here is that counted as our emissions or China's? Is the recent decline just a reflection of the decline in our manufacturing?
How much of the recent decline can be attributed to ‘offshoring’ our emissions?
This. The graph shows UK CO2 emissions due to fossil fuel and industry. It doesn't take a genius to work out why that's fallen off a cliff in the last twenty years, but to then suggest that we lead less polluting lives in this country is a bit of a leap,.
Our 1892 Grand Piano made by John Broadwood & Sons has ivory keys.
It gets played every day. It's lovely
Our 1892 Grand Piano made by John Broadwood & Sons has ivory keys.
Yeah, I was thinking about this thread and pianos last night. The discussion is only happening because the cigarette holder has no value. If it was worth any money at all there would be no ludicrous suggestions about smashing it up or burying it.
Now, how big a hole do you need for your piano? It could make a satisfying noise when hit by a sledgehammer? 😀
