2026-09-26 02:13 UTC
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When people picture environmental destruction, they usually imagine burning rainforests or oil spills—fast, visible, dramatic events. Deep-sea mining is the exact opposite: cold, pitch-black, thousands of meters down, happening at a depth where almost no human will ever see it.
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@appassionato@mastodon.social 2026-09-26 02:14
3/ Those polymetallic nodules grow at a rate of just a few millimeters every million years. The deep-sea corals, sponges, and stalked organisms that rely on them for anchorage have evolved over millennia in an environment that is otherwise pure, soft sediment. When a heavy robotic crawler scrapes those nodules away, it isn't just harvesting rocks; it is permanently deleting a foundation that took epochs to build.