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> Until we can determine the impact, I don't see why it should be banned outright. Do you apply this philosophy in your life? If the risk was for you to take o
by buran77 6y ago
> Until we can determine the impact, I don't see why it should be banned outright.
Do you apply this philosophy in your life? If the risk was for you to take on yourself would you think the same way? Or only when the risk is to some far off people, in a far off land, or some future generation?
- stuff4ben 6y agoThis makes no sense. We perform trials to gather data, just like any scientist. That's what this is, not strip-mining the sea-floor outright. If the trials proved that this can be done in a responsible way, why not do it? But instead you just want to ban it without gathering any data at all.
- buran77 6y agoWe've been mining for quite some time now. Have we ever been able to do it without major negative impact on the environment, at least in the easiest, most practiced of conditions? Mining "in a responsible way" is like "clean coal". It's a euphemism for something that still does a lot of damage but fills some pockets enough to call it whatever they want. The scientists are there just to minimize that damage.