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Capitalists sink to new depths, and we’re letting them get away with it

03 September 2020 - 08:00 By Khalid Mather
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This ghostlike octopus was only recently discovered deep at the bottom of the ocean off an island near Hawaii. It makes its home at a site being eyed for deep-sea mining.
This ghostlike octopus was only recently discovered deep at the bottom of the ocean off an island near Hawaii. It makes its home at a site being eyed for deep-sea mining.
Image: Courtesy of NOOA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Hohonu Moana 2016

The UN is poised to start deliberations about allowing deep-sea mining, with no regard for the youth.

These minerals are not just laying around for greedy men and women to repurpose and gobble up, they serve an intrinsic purpose.

 

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