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by CyanBird 892 days ago
And the counter argument to the "amount of area '' not being big ''" is that the zones that will be mined are precisely the richest in ecological interactions and less understood ones, they are the zones with underwater volcanic chimneys

If someone came and said that they want to drag mine/open pit mine the Yellowstone geysers bc of how rich they are with minerals and said as an argument "hey it is just a small part of the park!" I don't believe that many people would be inclined to accept that "argument"....
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t43562 892 days ago
Yellowstone is precious because land without people on it is precious. The sea covers 71 percent of the earths surface and has no humans on it anywhere.

The areas with nodules containing the the right stuff is very small from my memory - haven't got a reference.

So is the damage going to spread wider than that area? I can see why people want to study it. I just don't reject the idea as I think the climate situation is a lot more critical than people like to imagine and we should have options.

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