Environment & Energy
Related: About this forumDeep-sea mining 'must responsibly respect ecosystems'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25638838Scientists have made an impassioned plea for humanity to pause and think before making a headlong rush to exploit the deep sea.
The researchers said the oceans' lowest reaches had untold riches that could benefit mankind enormously, but not if the harvesting were done destructively.
The scientists called for a "new stewardship" of the deep sea.
This would require effective ecosystem management and sustainable methods of exploitation.
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)hatrack
(59,596 posts).
NickB79
(19,277 posts)Didn't you get the memo?
hatrack
(59,596 posts)Since undersea mining would be even more invisible than industrial fishing, I'm sure we have nothing to worry about here.
I hear that very serious, responsible people are in charge - people with an eye always fixed on the long-term consequences of our collective actions.
quadrature
(2,049 posts)but it is bad when US ships pick up
manganese nodules on the ocean floor,
because the US is bad.
it is OK when African diamond-mine operators
chop people's arms off.
but when the US tries to open a copper mine in
Alaska, it is an international crisis.
the world's oceans are being overfished,
reefs are being strip mined, cyanide fishing, who cares,
...but when the US tries to open a rare-earth-mineral mine,
the Chinese complain that 1 microgram of thorium
will be let loose in the ground water.
why is that?
NickB79
(19,277 posts)And environmental groups have been protesting ALL of those examples for decades.
What you posted wasn't a critique of US bad/rest of the world good, but rather who benefits the most economically from said resource extraction.