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> Eager to cash in, companies have begun the process of sending machinery down to the bottom of the sea to set up mining operations. What regulatory body would
by spraak 8y ago
> Eager to cash in, companies have begun the process of sending machinery down to the bottom of the sea to set up mining operations.
What regulatory body would or does oversee that? That makes me really sad... so much of the earth destroyed, and now one of the last (if not the last?) untouched part of nature.
- garmaine 8y agohttps://www.isa.org.jm https://www.isa.org.jm
- lentil_soup 8y agoMakes me very sad as well, the sea is probably one of the last places where humans haven't destroyed the local mega-fauna
- danparsonson 8y agoWe're working on that though - many different species of pelagics are threatened by human activity :-/
- fabricexpert 8y agoI understand the need to preserve - but what's the point of preserving an environment we'll never, ever see, touch or notice? If the trade off is that we slow economic growth and human prosperity, I'm not sure I'd take it. Of course if there are serious impacts (e.g. climate change or mass extinction of species) then we need to tread carefully.