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    References
    [1] https://www.resolve.ngo/docs/mar_technol_soc_j_45_28a.pdf
    [2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-020-0027-0
    [3] https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/world-history-beginnings/origin-humans-early-societies/a/where-did-humans-come-from#:~:text=Between%2070%2C000%20and%20100%2C000%20years,35%2C000%20and%2065%2C000%20years%20ago.&text=Map%20of%20the%20world%20showing,throughout%20the%20Earth%20over%20time

    [4] https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article-abstract/48/3/293/579958/Environmental-predictors-of-deep-sea-polymetallic

    [5] https://www.isa.org.jm/exploration-contracts/polymetallic-nodules
    [6] https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/fact-sheets/2017/12/the-clarion-clipperton-zone

    [7] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02222-1
    [8] https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/15/2525/2018/
    [9] https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/11/10/1132
    [10] https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/349889/
    [11] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenrg.2022.884571/full

    [12] http://www.deepseaminingoutofourdepth.org/impacts-of-mining-deep-sea-polymetallic-nodules-in-the-pacific/

    [13] https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-021-00213-8
    [14] https://www.discol.de/home
    [15] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-44492-w
    [16] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8192577/

    [17] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652620338671?via%3Dihub

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    28 Comments

    2. SAINT rachel JAROD M. HOLY-K/AYLWORTH on

      Well if one thing that has been learned is clear cut in a forest is extremely detrimental, and never recovers.
      Because there is a diversified lifeforms down and around there. If they didn't harvest all, and left alternating sections, and left areas of diversified populated areas alone. That would allow life to continue to exist.

    4. K Robbins on

      Very informative, occurred to me what about using magnets to attract the medals without raking across the surface and floating the materials to the surface so the sludge isn't created? Would need to understand how this would impact life but theory wise seems perhaps better that scrapping and pumping?

    5. Samuel G on

      I think we are alot better off sticking to fossil fuel than making negligent life changing policies and attempts to mine these questionable minerals to fulfill a utopian liberal extremists dream

    13. Woodscraps1798 on

      We’ll keep stripping and stripping down bits of the earth until it stops yielding enough to carry the consumptive population. Then people will die off and the remaining will have to spend a lot more energy on recycling to keep any kind of modern-ish living standard.

    14. Woodscraps1798 on

      Also, the green energy transition using current solar, wind and lithium battery tech is not just laughably psychotic, but it is failing massively and returning its greatest adherents to pre-industrial levels.

      Europe is going to be living like the Congo pretty soon, and carbon emissions will RISE because they’ll be burning coal again.

    18. mike hawk on

      GREAT WAY TO SCREWUP THE OCEAN SOME MORE👎👎& how will they dispose of the CAR PACK BATTERIES when they die throw them back into the water

    19. on the far side on

      What will we do with the wast it leaves once we are done with them? If plastic is the example of what we'll do once they are used then lets just leave them where they are.

    25. Lee Gilley on

      Let's destroy the ocean floor by mining , to make batteries ,Liberals are idiots. Let's create induction recycling generators so we don't have to.

    26. Alan Prestidge on

      I say world has to be restarted again and for humans to base there ideas and thoughts on anything that's to benefit everything , in this most one of a kind place we live on. We really needed to start earlier GOD bless you all.

    27. Bryan Condrey on

      If man can touch it on Earth, it will make a mess. The scale of what we need over the next 2500 years means we need to look to the asteroid belt for minerals. Until then, we have to perfect using what we have and stop fighting over who has control over a spec of dirt.

    28. Phillip Shearman on

      Nice video. Certainly a better way to mine these metals than to have children in the Congo work all day in dangerous conditions for a dollar just to satisfy our materialistic desires.

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