This is so catastrophically bad.
I wrote a #solarpunk story warning about deep sea mining:
"A trawler crawls across an abyssal plain, cleaning microplastics off the ancient mineral-rich nodules, when the crew finds something that shouldn’t be possible."
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Deep Sea Mining is the worst. The damage is so incredibly bad.
But greed tops everything. We are a parasitic species...
Love 'em or loathe "em, Last Week Tonight did a decent introduction to this travesty.
If fracking is scraping the barrel, is this licking the plate? Ripping up the carpet? Beating up the disabled kid?
@Deep_Adaptation_Forum It's more like "poison all ecosystems of the world and die because you have The Dumb"