A vast treasure of critical minerals lies on the ocean floor. Should they be extracted to help fight climate change?
    • pineapple_pizza@lemmy.dexlit.xyzEnglish
      42·
      7 months ago

      I think the idea is that it could replace some land mining and also drop the price for precious metals. If you can drop these prices then batteries become cheaper which could encourage more people to move away from fossil fuels. However, we really don’t have a good understanding of the deep ocean floor at this point, so its hard to say what consequences this will have. Obviously it’s not ideal, but it could be the lesser of two evils.

      • nevemsenki@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        7 months ago

        Could be but probably won’t. In 30 years we will be wondering how no-one foresaw how much damage deep sea mining caused (and still won’t act to stop it anyway).