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Worth noting that the cobalt and magnesium that they want to mine from the seabed are not necessary for net zero, and indeed are largely being abandoned in favor of significantly more affordable alternatives.
Deep sea mining remains a few influential investors trying to drum up government subsidies and funding for an incredibly unprofitable and destructive method to solve a nonexistent supply problem.