{"id":128305,"date":"2021-09-29T20:22:48","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T03:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/corporations-are-sending-huge-mining-machines-to-the-bottom-of-the-ocean"},"modified":"2021-09-29T20:22:48","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T03:22:48","slug":"corporations-are-sending-huge-mining-machines-to-the-bottom-of-the-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/corporations-are-sending-huge-mining-machines-to-the-bottom-of-the-ocean","title":{"rendered":"Corporations Are Sending Huge Mining Machines to the Bottom of the Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/corporations-are-sending-huge-mining-machines-to-the-bottom-of-the-ocean2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeepGreen is offering a false or dystopian choice,\u201d Deep Sea Conservation Coalition cofounder Matthew Gianni told <em>The Guardian<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Dangling the possibility of widespread electric vehicle adoption by securing the resources necessary to manufacture more and better batteries is certainly tantalizing. But scientists told<em> The Guardian<\/em> that getting those metals from the seafloor \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/seabed-mining-robots-set-dig-gold-ocean-floor\" class=\"\">especially with machines<\/a> that would cause a poorly-understood environmental impact in an area that\u2019s nearly impossible to monitor and regulate \u2014 would come at too great a cost.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are some very significant questions being raised by scientists about the impacts of ocean mining,\u201d University of California, Santa Barbara researcher Douglas McCauley told <em>The Guardian<\/em>. \u201cHow much extinction could be generated? How long will it take these extremely low-resilience systems to recover? What impact will it have on the ocean\u2019s capacity to capture carbon?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDeepGreen is offering a false or dystopian choice,\u201d Deep Sea Conservation Coalition cofounder Matthew Gianni told The Guardian. Dangling the possibility of widespread electric vehicle adoption by securing the resources necessary to manufacture more and better batteries is certainly tantalizing. But scientists told The Guardian that getting those metals from the seafloor \u2014 especially with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}