Deep-sea mining could soon be approved — how bad is it? Really!

Deep sea mining is most likely a necessity going forward! Despite several decades of deep sea mining, this business is still very much in its infancy.

Let's not forget the ocean floors are vast and gigantic. Thus, deep sea mining is probably going to affect only a few percent of the whole ocean floor.

However, scaremongering, alarmism and hysteria are constant attempts to undermine this effort! As usual the environmental impact is greatly exaggerated. Means to avoid or reduce the impact are not mentioned or downplayed and so on ... 

"Commercial mining of the sea floor could soon get the green light. The International Seabed Authority (ISA), a body associated with the United Nations that oversees deep-sea mining in international waters, is now meeting in Kingston, Jamaica, where it could decide whether companies can begin excavating the sea floor for minerals and metals such as cobalt, nickel and sulfides. ...
However, research hints that the potential ecological impacts of deep-sea mining are larger than previously thought. Nature explores just how bad deep-sea mining could be. ..."

Deep-sea mining could soon be approved — how bad is it? The creatures at the bottom of the ocean are little-studied, but emerging data hint at long-term damage from efforts to harvest metals on the sea floor.