Indigenous rights, the environment, and international law: What's at stake at this week's seabed mining talks
https://grist.org/indigenous/indigenous-rights-the-environment-and-international-law-whats-at-stake-at-this-weeks-seabed-mining-talks/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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@Grist @grist-Grist "A range of human activities pose a risk to life in, and the health of, the deep sea. Key among these are deep-sea fishing, the possible start of deep-sea mining, and a range of geoengineering plans proposed as solutions to the climate crisis that could impact deep ocean areas
The principal drivers of threats to the deep sea are the same across all these activities: governments prioritizing exploitation over ocean protection, failure to honor commitments, lack of transparency, and inadequately regulated exploitation and extraction. Many of these problems are rooted in the fundamental flaws of the current global economic model, where short-term gains for the powerful few override longer-term benefits for the many. Both individually and collectively, these failures are allowing and enabling the degradation of vulnerable deep-sea ecosystems."
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