A Brazilian oceanographer was named secretary-general of the International Seabed Authority, which is tasked with completing regulations around mining the seabed for minerals used in EV batteries.
It was absolutely wild seeing those articles recently with headlines along the lines of “here’s why it’s maybe not a great idea to kill everything in the deep ocean” like holy fuck we know less about that part of the ocean than we do about outer space and we have to argue about not completely ruining it? What the fuck?
It was absolutely wild seeing those articles recently with headlines along the lines of “here’s why it’s maybe not a great idea to kill everything in the deep ocean” like holy fuck we know less about that part of the ocean than we do about outer space and we have to argue about not completely ruining it? What the fuck?