There is an ongoing debate about whether deep sea mining is good or not. Deep sea mining can help provide us with material for almost anything but many of you have probably heard that it destroys the seafloor.
Because the mining uses something that looks like a humongous robotic vacuum, which creates an underwater sandstorm, many tend to argue that it destroys the seafloor, and we are only starting to study the deep seafloor. The people on the other side of the argument say that mining the ocean will be better than the times that we mined on land, like when people mined for nickel in Indonesia, causing over 1 million acers of land to be deforested. Deep sea mining could also help our need for metals in a net-zero future they say.
In conclusion, scientists must keep researching these areas of interest.
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