Our oceans face a new threat: big mining companies want to chew up the ocean floor, destroying fragile ecosystems in the process. Join me in demanding that Canada stop deep sea mining before it’s too late.
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@nativeCalgarian
I agree with this, the seabed is just as much part of the ecosystem as everything else, we keep discovering new life down on the seabed (so is it not as lifeless as we may have once thought) we need to protect it, not exploit for profit.
@zleap @nativeCalgarian It's theorised the nodules themselves are the source of oxygen that deep in the ocean. In that case mining them would eliminate even the possibility of life reasserting there, those tiny nodules are billions of years old.
@cohentheblue @nativeCalgarian
This is one article on the subject
https://cen.acs.org/physical-chemistry/Nodules-deep-sea-source-dark/102/web/2024/07
@cohentheblue @nativeCalgarian
https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-1-4419-0851-3_880
'Radioactivity in the Marine Environment' published in 'Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology'
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