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What to think about deep-sea mining for clean-energy minerals

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Are We Trading One Permanent Environmental Decay for Another?

Mining and drilling can be done somewhat better or worse, but there's a sort of base level of damage you're doing. There's a lot of wiggle room still to improve these minerals because right now, like the current market for these minerals is relatively modest. So this is not a trading one permanent ecological nightmare for another permanent, each ecological nightmare. It's a bottleneck that we're trying to get through in the next several decades.

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