The Proponents of Deep Sea Mining

The case against this, I think, is pretty clear and worries about ecosystems that we don't fully understand. The proponents of deep sea mining would say the difference is that when you go hundreds or thousands of miles away from any community where people are living in the middle of the ocean to get these nodules. It doesn't touch anyone's water supply. There are potentially impacts to fisheries like tuna and some other fish that kind of utilize deep parts of the ocean. Overall, you're not really going to be directly damaging people's homes and communities in the same way that terrestrial mining often does.