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- 1Bottom trawling and deep-sea mining compared as twin threats●What makes bottom trawling and proposed deep-sea mining twin horrors is that same fundamental mechanism: taking ecosyste
Commenters are linking bottom trawling and proposed deep-sea mining as sharing the same core problem: both disturb ecosystems that operate on geological timescales, where corals grow only millimeters a year and sediment settles over centuries, meaning damage may never recover within human lifetimes. The comparison is drawing attention to the pace of industrial seabed extraction at a time when governments weigh whether to approve commercial deep-sea mining.