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I’m not a rare earth metal baron masquerading online as a Typescript developer. Yes I was asking honestly. I wish someone who downvoted me would tell me why the

• TaylorAlexander 4y ago
  I didn’t vote, but personally it seems somewhat obvious to me that the best thing we can do for existing ecosystems, if they have not already been disturbed, is to leave them as they are. Generally the creatures that live there evolved to live there, and the conditions required for the ecosystem to thrive are complex. What I’ve seen of ocean mining involves completely scraping the sea floor of everything and extracting the metals from the disturbed material. Proposed machines leave behind them a complete wake of destruction. There is no possibility to make things better than if we had left it alone. The only opportunity we have to make things better is in areas we have ourselves destroyed. Then we have a chance to improve it. But if something is undisturbed we can’t really improve upon that.
• midoridensha 4y ago
  >I wish someone who downvoted me would tell me why the answer is no. This is an internet forum full of know-it-alls with Dunning-Kruger Syndrome and toxic personalities. You're not likely to get reasoned answers when you ask honest questions; instead, you just get downvotes and insults.
  • idontwantthis 4y ago
    I did end up getting good answers.
    • midoridensha 4y ago
      Sure, there's usually some helpful people here and there in any such forum. But you also got a lot of downvotes and bad comments. I never said everyone in these internet forums is a bunch of jerks. The problem is that so many people are, that the places frequently become un-enjoyable.