WASHINGTON - United States President Donald Trump has defied international norms on the nascent field of deep-sea mining, signing an executive order Thursday expanding the practice for rare earth minerals in domestic and international waters.
  • @RandAlThor@lemmy.caOPEnglish
    32•17 days ago

    This is going to fuck up the oceans. If US violates international agreements to do this, China is going to follow on a much bigger scale and destroy seabeds everywhere. Look at what they’ve done with fishing. If we think environmental damage is bad, we ain’t see nothing yet.

    • @taladar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      13•16 days ago

      Not that I necessarily disagree that China would do it on a huge scale but what makes you think the US under Trump and his billionaire buddy psychopaths wouldn’t do it on a catastrophic scale already?

  • @Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
    7•16 days ago

    This is from the same guy “offshore windfarms are killing whales, they need to be stopped, for protecting them ❤️”