The potential impacts of mining rare minerals from the ocean floor - PBS NewsHour

[Rhiannon12866]

Along certain parts of the ocean floor lies a bounty of rare minerals and metals, critical components for batteries, electric cars and other electronics. But mining for them in the deep sea is a controversial and potentially destructive process.

Special correspondent Willem Marx joined William Brangham to discuss how the Trump administration is considering pushing ahead with the practice. - Aired on 04/18/2025.

[NNadir]

1. There is a wonderful documentary on land based mining my wife and I saw recently.

Unearth

There are antinuke assholes who are fine with mining the seabed because of their idiot fondness for so called "renewable energy," which, because of the unsustainable reliance on mining the shit out of the planet, is a self contradictory phrase. There's nothing "renewable" about extreme mining.

The asshole, Benjamin Sovacool, in question and his "paper" in an otherwise highly reputable journal:

Sustainable minerals and metals for a low-carbon future

Subtitle:

Policy coordination is needed for global supply chains.

How people like Sovacool are allowed to advertise themselves as "environmentalists" astounds and depresses me.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. Thank you for the recommendation! And I did have that thought myself

Last week I posted another thread about the same type of mining (from 60 Minutes) - only in Greenland. And it's not a popular industry there because of the difficulty, plus the climate and the ice. Yet the guy who heads it up said that TFG is very interested.


The challenge of mining Greenland's natural resources - 60 Minutes Overtime
https://democraticunderground.com/1127181994