Protest: Global Activation to Stop Deep-Sea Mining
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Date & Time
Sun, Jul 20 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Address (map)
Via Real, Carpinteria
Venue (website)
Rincon Beach Park
Deep seas under threat
Only recently have scientists begun to understand its vital importance for our planet and for our lives. Only recently has the role of sea floors in carbon sequestration been discovered. (4) Think climate change.
The Trump administration recently announced opening US waters to seabed mining for manganese nodules. This may soon devastate American Samoa’s US territorial waters. (5)
- Deep-sea mining would cause irreversible harm to the ocean and climate, destroying fragile ecosystems, threatening carbon sequestration and storage, and pushing unique species toward extinction before we’ve even discovered them.
- The industry has no social license, no proven value, and no future. Scientists, governments, Indigenous leaders, businesses, and communities across the world are united behind a moratorium, calling for decisions based on science, not short-term profit.
- Deep-sea mining is a threat to global cooperation and multilateralism. Mining companies are rushing to bypass international processes and international ocean governance so they can plunder the deep sea and the common heritage of humankind for private profit.
