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We're going to be using these maps to expand deep sea mining that will certainly result in the poisoning of innocent people in remote regions of the world whn t
by Teever 3y ago
We're going to be using these maps to expand deep sea mining that will certainly result in the poisoning of innocent people in remote regions of the world whn their food sources become contaminated from whatever we dredge up.
It's colonialism and exploitation of a different kind.
I'm not expecting you to single handedly put a stop to it or anything but it's not unreasonable to expect that you can recognize and acknowledge it instead of pretending it doesn't exist and saying that those sort of things only happened a long time ago.
- non-chalad 3y agoSo compete with eco-friendly dredging, and show them a better way?
- Teever 3y agoBut you know that 'eco-friendly dredging' in this context is an oxymoron on par with 'consensual rape.'
- non-chalad 3y agoThen use caissons and hyperbaric chambers; Mine the old fashioned way. You could make a floating island to service the system; They can be quite cheap https://ventivefloathouse.com/ https://ventivefloathouse.com/
- Teever 3y agoWithout getting into whether or not this technology that you're bringing up out of no where is the panacea to all the problems with seabed mining that we're talking about, what sort of mechanisms do you propose we use to ensure that the people who mine will use these safer technologies?
- nerdponx 3y ago"You gotta tell people... The oceans are dying, plankton's dying... it's people. Soylent Green is made out of people."
- LargoLasskhyfv 3y agoYäss, Yäss. By employing alcalic hydrolysis and growing fungi from that sludge. Maybe with some fried bugs & worms added. Soylent Green Sesame?
- nerdponx 3y agoAs long as they figure out the prion safety issue, "going home" and then being turned into food doesn't sound like such a bad system really.