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[–] Yourshadowq@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Can we not please? How much more of our planet do we need to fuck up?

[–] pineapple_pizza@lemmy.dexlit.xyz 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.world 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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).

[–] Discoslugs@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Please see film Underwater 2020

[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Promise? No.