Is DeepGreen good for the planet?
Key points Dr. Gregory Stone, DeepGreen’s Chief Ocean Scientist, discusses the company’s environmental case with Rennier Gadabu, Nauru’s Minister for Commerce, Industry, Environment, Climate Change and Infrastructure Development. Stone argues deep-sea mineral extraction…
What is the biggest environmental challenge we face today?
Key points Gerard Barron of DeepGreen and Yale’s Cary Krosinsky identify climate change as the top existential environmental crisis, citing recent protests including 500,000 marchers in Montreal. They note that water, biodiversity, forests, oceans, coral reefs and food security are…
How will DeepGreen make sure the oceans aren’t exploited?
Key points DeepGreen CEO Gerard Barron says the company is on the verge of becoming the first to extract minerals from the seafloor, calling it “a big responsibility to be first.” Barron says the area DeepGreen operates in contains enough polymetallic nodules to satisfy future…
How would you explain DeepGreen’s work to a child? 2
Key points Gerard Barron, CEO of DeepGreen, says he hopes deep-sea metal collection will let the world move away from rainforest destruction and child labor used to source metals for electric cars and mobile phones. Barron says the environmental impact of collecting metals from the ocean…
What do environmentalists think about DeepGreen?
Key points Lead Environmental Scientist Adrian Hellman tells CEO Gerard Barron that environmentalists split into two camps: those opposed to any mining, and those like her who use the ocean but see a need for materials to move away from fossil fuels. Hellman compares the reaction to seafloor…
How is collecting metals from the sea different to mining metals from the land?
Key points DeepGreen Metals trainee Glorie Baciyunjuze, responding to Launcher Captain Preben Hall, draws on her own experience witnessing conditions in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where she saw children used in land-based mineral mining. She says Congo’s land mining supply chain…