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Thank you for your detailed response@OoohShiny Hi! I’ll respond to your post as you asked a lot of questions, but then I will respect this thread and stay on topic.
It sounds like you are anti-mining for diamonds, pro MMD and want to preserve this “fragile rock” that we live on. Yet I assume you like and perhaps own a super ideal diamond because you are on this forum. Hence, I am not sure of your point here... it seems contradictory.
You say both are the same chemical composition which I agree but why should one be valued less. Well, anything synthetic or fake is worth less so yes, a synthetic fake diamond is going to be worth less. That is just life and human nature.
I love genuine diamonds and am against anything fake, so if the industry crashed, no, I would never purchase a MMD. I would move on to colored gemstones for bling.
Yes... I have been brainwashed to covet diamond jewelry such as tennis bracelets or diamond stud earrings. Diamond marketing is why we are all here on this forum. Without marketing, the demand for diamond ERs, stud earrings, tennis bracelets would not exist. I would buy the next “in” piece of jewelry, not fake diamond.
MMDs are a by product of marketing because the person wants to own a “diamond”. And yes, Americans want diamonds because of marketing. Like it or not, if you have a diamond ring or earrings, the marketing worked on you too. I think marketing is good. It gives us insight, opens our eyes to what is out there, but still allows us as humans to decide.
I believe if mined diamonds were no longer available, people would move on to another gemstone for adornment because most people want a genuine article. Perhaps not you, as you prefer MMDs and other synthetics that are not mined from the earth.
I would dare to say if genuine mined diamonds were no longer available, there would be no demand for MMDs. Demand for anything fake is only because the genuine article exists.
Hope this answers your questions.
Sorry folks for going off topic to respond. I promise I will stay on topic going forward.
As you say, we are taking things off topic here
but in my defence I would say that I am partly being contradictory to provoke discussion and perhaps trigger chains of thought that might cause one to think about one's currently held viewpoints - I like to be challenged myself, it has made me shift my viewpoint and alter my thinking/behaviour on occasion, so I think it is good to do.I am not necessarily anti-mining or a tree-hugging, sandal-wearing, yurt-living survivalist hippy
as I have bought a mined diamond for the other half and am currently burning through dead dinosaurs at a rapid rate, what with doing about 25,000 miles a year in a car that only does about 33 miles per UK gallon, so about 25 miles per US gallon 
, but I think it essential that all of us humans on this small planet do start to think on a 'one world' basis - all this politics and nonsense over land boundaries, along with the continued extraction of ground-based resources that have taken millions of years to accumulate and only hundreds (or even tens) of years to use a large portion of, won't change unless we all realise we are in this together and all have to live more sustainably and as one community. Am I looking forward to it? Not really, I like my comfy western lifestyle, I don't want to have to live off the land and only be able to go anywhere if I can walk the distance but all the communities in remote locations who are doing exactly that might well be living the life we will all be living in time! Well, unless Star Trek happens, but we'll probably have destroyed ourselves long before that point... lolAaaanyway, I digress. If MMDs initially came about through demand created by marketing, there's no reason they couldn't replace Mined stones if they were no longer available. Marketing is all about creation or manipulation of a certain perception - things can change overnight or over decades, but change is not impossible. Perhaps MMDs will start to be seen as a more 'responsible' choice, in the same way that solar panels and ground-/air-source heat pumps are (two examples of developments in human technology being better than the current modus operandi), and Mined diamonds will change to only being desirable if they are sourced from small, ethical operations, like those being focussed on by the DDI work? 'Boutique' operations are often desired by many for their more 'personal' approach, which is often less 'corporate greed'-focused and more 'ethical' than huge faceless corporations, so if the DDI work can create that environment, give customers a clear link to the source of their stone and give the miners involved a greater share of the profits, that is good news
I do hope you would be able to embrace MMDs if they become more 'mainstream', though - I would hate anyone to deprive themselves of the beauty of well-cut diamonds because of marketing-influenced thinking!
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