To meet the booming demand for electric cars, should we start mining the world's largest ocean?

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Resource companies and island nations are scouring the Pacific Ocean for vast untapped minerals.
Trillions of rocks found on the seabed contain metals that could power electric cars and green energy.
The Cook Islands government believes deep-sea mining could contribute to the fight against climate change and end the country’s economic dependence on tourism.
But environmentalists say extracting minerals from 5,000 metres (16,400 feet) beneath the ocean’s surface could be catastrophic for fragile marine ecosystems the scientific world knows little about.
With deep-sea mining likely to start in 2024, 101 East investigates how it could affect the world’s largest ocean.
This documentary was produced in collaboration with SBS Australia and supported by the Sean Dorney Grant for Pacific Journalism through the Walkley Public Fund.
CREDITS:
Correspondent: Lucy Murray
Director and Senior Producer: Drew Ambrose
Field Producer: Melina Etches
Cinematography: Lee Ali
Picture Editor: Andy Mees
Graphics: Keke Marc Robertson
Digital Producer: Hasham Cheema
Archive: Shella Costales
Additional Footage: NIWA, The Metals Company, International Seabed Authority and Moana Minerals
Senior Producer: Liz Gooch
Production Manager: Susanna Low
Supervising Producer: Nick Olle
Executive Producer: Sharon Roobol
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19 апр 2023

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@aljazeeraenglish Год назад

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@Sinaunangpanahon Год назад

We must remember that the ocean provides 70% of the oxygen for the planet. We still don't know the potential impact on the deep-sea ecosystem, and just imagine the carbon that has accumulated on the ocean floor being disturbed.

@VEILSIDEFTO01 Год назад

I know right, it's not as if there are deep sea thermal vents that continually spew co2 🙄

@shadetreader 8 месяцев назад

The problem is that capitalists don't care about wrecking the planet as long as it makes them richer.

@mysterioustravels4305 Год назад

The one who really harms the environment is us, humans.

@genrerationx Год назад

Then stop producing children...

@projector1991 Год назад

Lol who is us? I never asked for steel industry or any other and I certainly did not invent something thats goin to do major damage.. I’ts not my fault that I was born into reality where I have refrigerator since childhood. Shift the blame on big boys man not us…

@PG-3462 Год назад

@@projector1991 But you for sure like using it, and keep consuming always more of it 🤦‍♂️ Part of the blame is on all of us, as corporations produce what we want to consume. Here's an example. In the last decade, the sales of big 4x4 SUV kept increasing in North America. What did car manufacturers do? They stopped selling smaller cars and hatchbacks and created more 4x4 SUVs. And for this, you can blame it 100% on the consumers. As the sales of 4x4 SUVs keep increasing, then you shouldn't be surprised that oil consumption is increasing as well...

@shadetreader 8 месяцев назад

*capitalists

@cheweperro 10 месяцев назад

That prime minister sounds like Stockton rush, saying the people who call call out risks are anti science, anti innovation, jumping the bandwagon He ignores concerns by specialists and continues doing what he wants, profit.

@user-co5ny9nb7f 7 месяцев назад

He is a Crook, he likes to borrow money, I wonder what happened to 80 million dollars been borrow this year

@bundy-kj8nd 14 дней назад

He didn't start all this it was the prime minister before him who signed off.

@javiertorres9114 Год назад

If this is another corporate shareholding business, they’re going to cause damage. They will find the cheapest cost cutting method to extract these minerals at the cost of the environment. They won’t invest in mitigating damage.

@waitawhileexplorer3904 Год назад

This is the most important point that the story missed.

@peteypops 10 месяцев назад

Unfortunately, we all benefit from corporate shareholding businesses. If someone can come up with a formula to restrict the massive profits that the big corporations have historically realised, then we all might reap the benefits of research, exploration and exploitation?

@javiertorres9114 10 месяцев назад

@@peteypops that’s “if” we can all benefit from the realized profits. Otherwise we obtain no benefits at all. The average CEO wage has risen over 1300% since 1978. As long as they maintain low cost of overhead which includes keeping wages down, forever if possible. Also includes using profits for stock buy backs to manipulate share prices to artificially increase instead of reinvesting in the company through wages or machinery. I just don’t see how you can say we all benefit from Wall Street when the main purpose of a CEO is to lookout for the best interest of the shareholders.

@shadetreader 8 месяцев назад

@peterwhitmore6842 No, WE don't benefit. The rich get richer while we get a poisoned planet. Stop repeating "trickle down" myths.

@shadetreader 8 месяцев назад

That's precisely how the capitalist system operates. It's inherently evil.

@lordoreocat Год назад

12:42 At this point, I lost it. Completely lost it.

@brainstem2023 10 месяцев назад

The perspective your organization provides is extremely important in the world. I pray that more people, especially the most closed-minded, will be moved by the spirit to pay more attention.

@beataplaya Год назад

Who ever thought that green energy is clean, it's actually dirty. Clean for the end-users, but disastrous from which the minerals are sourced.

@PG-3462 Год назад

The oil and gas industry remains THE largest source of pollution in the entire world. Al Jazeera is Qatar's state media... Qatar is an oil producing country and relies on this industry for nearly all its income... It sounds to me that they want to make "green energy" look worse than it is so that we keep consuming oil for as long as possible.

@netgnostic1627 10 месяцев назад

Hmmm, nickel is magnetic. I wonder if that can be used such that only a percentage of the nodules are picked up, in a way that keeps the disturbance very small. I'm thinking this way because a big fat "NO" often falls down in the face of industry and big money, where a carefully-designed "SOME" answer can work for both sides. Many people in those island chains are extremely poor, and some of those governments will give up too much control of their ocean territory because of the needs of their people. I'm concerned that difficult times are coming on this issue.

@lacusrengoku5087 Год назад

Any resource dependent technology is no solution to climate crisis

@pedrohpires6608 Год назад

And your solution?

@lacusrengoku5087 Год назад

@@pedrohpires6608 It's a predicament, not a problem. Problems have soutions, predicaments don't.

@VEILSIDEFTO01 Год назад

That includes the resource dependence of "green technology" does it not? Climate crisis or just another organized religion.....follow the 💸💸

@bleb87 Год назад

@@pedrohpires6608have less babies.

@bleb87 Год назад

You have no kids you get clearance to do whatever you want. 1 kid, no penalty. 2 kids carbon tax. Each kid extra is extra tax. Reverse the child write offs. I know is drastic. But the greenest thing you can do is limit the population

@ministryofyahushua3065 Год назад

Just fracking but underwater. You take out a key part of the food chain the effects could be broad.

@avigoods719 Год назад

Forget mining. first start cleaning it.

@chivirakmeth8879 11 месяцев назад

One of the best documentary so far for 2023 👍🏻

@solidas Год назад

Stay away from our Pacific home!!!! GO MINE YOIUR OWN LAND!

@kjpd-jkod5001 Год назад

Madness!

@jerimiahsmedley3722 Год назад

We need to protect the oceans not do more damage. We need to find better solutions not quick ones.

@peteypops 10 месяцев назад

I don’t think any scientific research is truly independent…too many institutions have to rely on big business to exist…governments are no better, especially when most politicians have vested interests.

@everythyngnyce Год назад

The best way to solve an environmental issue is just create another environmental issue.

@raclark2730 Год назад

Hard no from me, the deep ocean has not been studied enough to just start doin things down there. Several new land based deposits have been found and some battery tech is also being tweaked to use none or less.

@IBRAKEFORBEDROCK Год назад

It’s all well and good drilling for minerals offshore, but how will you mine them once found

@leon8281 11 месяцев назад

Job well done Lucy!

@monicadoyle7191 Год назад

What a great piece!

@hewettnapa2467 6 месяцев назад

How much have you people extracted from the sea since being offered the exploration license?

@cleo6205 Год назад

Saline batteries are replacing lithiam batteries. I Googled it.

@fredrit323 Год назад

In other words, humanity is doomed, wichever way you look at it...

@raclark2730 Год назад

Silly, you watch to many movies. New mega deposit has been found on land in America anyway.

@CaptainKuki Год назад

No we should not, is my initial opinion. But i do not know enough yet. I will investigate further and form a more complete perspective.

@thomasr7129 10 месяцев назад

"You [other nations] destroyed nature, so we want to do it also..."

@Ifyoucanreadthisgooglebroke Год назад

Ahh, yes, solve your economic and brewing social problems by willingly walking into the resource trap. While doing more value worth in damage than the value of resources extracted. But hey, it makes money for some private companies and the politicians that they bought. Autocolonization is fun!

@PG-3462 Год назад

You said that on your phone that works with a lithium battery, powered with electricity that might have been generated by burning coal or natural gas... If I ask you if this is going to be your last phone ever, I guess that the answer will be no. Thus, some resources need to be extracted no matter what. The oil and gas industry remains THE largest source of pollution in the entire world, and Al Jazeera is Qatar's state media... Qatar is an oil producing country which relies on this industry for nearly all its income... It sounds to me that they want to make "green energy" look worse than it is so that we keep consuming oil for as long as possible.

@Anuchan Год назад

Deep sea mining will happen. We need to quickly determine which areas need to be protected.

@shadetreader 8 месяцев назад

Resigning ourselves to death-by-capitalism is exactly what the rich want us to do.

@Bazza1569 10 месяцев назад

How many $ was the PM paid?

@user-co5ny9nb7f 7 месяцев назад

Alot of money so he can buy Crack from his mate Albert Nicholas he's a MP

@Dinulik762 Год назад

Not really there are many technology of making batteries 😅 hope to choose the harmless 😊 Electric cars must be the future (again) this time with batteries 😉 keep up with good work 🍻

@kinggbull Год назад

Nothing but greed

@jaysoncarter5093 7 месяцев назад

Ohhh God a South African 😮😮😮!!! Okkkkay let's see about this.

@douglasedwards1923 Год назад

make them FIX the Plastic problem b4 thinking of doing this. look at what we have done to the land. Sad, $$$ is all they care about. inpact of what they do wont be felt till they are long gone & can throw it off to something else. disgusting the way we Rape our ONLY HOME !

@PG-3462 Год назад

So while we're not exploiting these resources to get renewable energy, we'll keep consuming oil... that's extracted from the deep seas.

@robertvarga9843 Год назад

Why corporations and corrupt politics have to destroy everything,?😊

@PG-3462 Год назад

Because we won't stop overconsuming all kind of things. You said this on your phone that works with a lithium battery, and powered with electricity that might have been generated by burning coal or natural gas. Will this be your last phone ever? Will you stop using all forms of transportation and only use a bicycle for the rest of your life? If the answer is no, then some resources will need to be extracted.

@muhammadaftab15033 Год назад

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@jakejonathan4249 Год назад

I like Aljazeera, but they also have been a medium for American and Zionist propaganda at times as well. Like all things in life, you should take them with a bit of salt.

@netgnostic1627 10 месяцев назад

Al Jazeera is often very good. It has a problem though, in that it can't really report news that the Qatari ruling family finds unacceptable.

@davidbaron5487 Год назад

If this pans out it is going to make some of the most far flung and poorest provinces of these island nations some of the richest in the country which will open the door to better education, health care etc.