Brendan Jones on Nostr: In entirely unsurprising news, deep sea mining basically kills at least half the life ...
In entirely unsurprising news, deep sea mining basically kills at least half the life in the mined area, and also in the surroundings.
We're going to keep doing this because our ever increasing energy demand needs to be decarbonised, and at the moment we need cobalt and other metals for that.
A clear case of fixing one planetary boundary impacting another one. This is #ecocide.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/14/deep-sea-mining-causes-huge-decreases-in-sealife-across-wide-region-says-study
#mining #biodiversity #sealife
We're going to keep doing this because our ever increasing energy demand needs to be decarbonised, and at the moment we need cobalt and other metals for that.
A clear case of fixing one planetary boundary impacting another one. This is #ecocide.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/14/deep-sea-mining-causes-huge-decreases-in-sealife-across-wide-region-says-study
#mining #biodiversity #sealife