The risk of sleepwalking into deep-sea disaster is at hand, say government officials

The deep ocean is a true global common. More and more states are coming forward and calling for a stop to the rush towards deep-sea mining, including France and Germany.
Sebastian Unger, Germany’s Federal Government Commissioner for the Ocean, and Olivier Poivre d’Arvor, the French Ambassador for the Poles and Maritime Issues, tell us why deep-sea mining poses a grave threat to this pristine marine ecosystem.
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