Celebrities such as Leonardo DiCaprio and Stella McCartney are helping push a boom of high-quality,synthetic materials used by luxury goods firmsEvery year, an estimated 150m carats of diamonds are extracted from the soil. It’s an industry that has been tainted by its links to blood diamonds, or war,exploitation and severe environmental impact, as immortalised by the 2006 film Blood Diamond, and starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
Yet diamonds remain one of the most sought-after items on the luxury market. The sector was worth an estimated $80bn in 2016,according to De Beers, with nearly half of the world’s demand coming from the US. Related: Lab-grown food: 'the goal is to remove the animal from meat production' Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com