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I would think pulling up a cable would be detrimental to any ecosystem that built on and around the cable. I would not be surprised to learn that ecosystems wer
by jagged-chisel 4y ago
I would think pulling up a cable would be detrimental to any ecosystem that built on and around the cable. I would not be surprised to learn that ecosystems were affected negatively when the cables were laid, too, so I think we probably want to limit damage by letting them lie there.
- uoaei 4y agoDepends on what kinds of substances are present there, that will leach out over time.
- frosted-flakes 4y agoSteel, rubber, and glass? Doesn't seem so bad.
- justinclift 4y agoFuture archaeologists may find "the fossilised remains of continent spanning worms!".
- sumedh 4y agoThere is no plastic in the cable?
- incrudible 4y agoIf you are worried about plastic in the ocean I have some really bad news.
- uoaei 4y agoThis attitude continues to perplex me. "There's already plastic in the ocean" is not a justification for adding more plastic to the ocean.
- incrudible 4y agoIf you're optimizing for the minimum amount of plastic in the ocean, not building undersea cables is not going to be very effective.
- uoaei 4y agoYou see, the question you're implying with that answer is different from the original one posed: from "do we put this cable down or not?" to "what else could we do with our time and energy?" You're not wrong, but in the context of this conversation it is an incorrect assessment.
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