I understand that there are fires rapidly approaching a lot of us right now, & we’re all limited on attention span but fuck. The deep sea is as precious an ecosystem as the national parks, but we understand them much less. Mining them is as ruinous as mining a national park. I’m sick about this.
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Olga Nesterova
The White House is weighing an executive order that would fast-track permitting for deep-sea mining in international waters and let mining companies bypass a United Nations-backed review process, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the deliberations.
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Also, if the ocean dies, we die so there's that. 😬
The deep sea is also phenomenally unkind to arrogance.
But this will, as worst case scenario, hopefully be a fck around and find out.
To me it reads as more of the same idiocy we're seeing everywhere else. They think they can approve it but can't actually
Tho hasn't this area already been "modified" by the 1970s experiment? (was that a British project? I'm forgetting the main PIs on that)
https://bsky.app/profile/drandrewthaler.bsky.social/post/3llr5y46ohs25
They really do think the more cruel an action, the more profitable it is, huh? We've got solar power etc right there, but no, gotta be a dick to nature...
The callousness of this administration, the greed & cruelty for both people and the creatures we share earth with, it’s incomprehensible to me.
You’re taking action where you can, and making significant impacts with your projects. Wish I had answers. Using your voice to raise awareness is huge. FWIW, this will be my White House call today.
We dont know shit.
So we should stop acting like we can fix it.
Cause we cant.
Then we're all dead.
I agree with everything you've said here and I'm mostly commenting in support to try and boost your post
But also because I understand the science of it and what a bad idea this is
https://www.google.com/search?q=new+research+finding+for+deep+ocean+oxygenation&rlz=1C5CHFA_enAU808AU808&oq=new+research+finding+for+deep+ocean+oxygenation&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRigATIHCAIQIRiPAtIBCTIxMjBqMGoxNagCCLACAfEFm9-FX4zy6NY&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
We have to protect the place the angler fish came from