John Oliver discusses deep-sea mining, whether or not it’s worth doing, and which undersea creature he most wants to eat.
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Well done John Oliver. I’m a marine biologist and I work in the field of drug discovery from Sponges and I think this is one of your best pieces. I hope this makes people more aware of what is going on and what potentially catastrophic damage could be caused by deep sea mining. The insoles are not trashing new environments but making better use of the resources we have on land. @dorrington_Research_group. @oneoceanhub
That woman at 12:00 fittingly looks like Prof. Umbridge.
Please tell us more about new batery technology!
There are nodules on land too and they are barely harvested because the profits are low, imagine how the profits of deep sea mining would be?
Nobody will mine them unless they get massive subsidies.
My key takeaway from this is the nodules in Subnautica are based in reality
How do we balance the number of species that do not know about and might kill vs the number of species we know that we're killing?
humans care very little for the world God lent them to live on. Soon the security deposit will be paid
There were a whole lot of "could" in that explanation
Once again, if it's such an issue, why doesn't John or HBO use their money to stop or prevent these things from happening? Week 5 of asking.
That's what every Musical sounds like to me.
No. Just no.
You will not get me to care about "microbes" that "play a role in an ecosystem" and "breath CO2". That is weak af. Grass does that and even more so probably. A a german citzen I have, over the years, developed a rule to detect BS-enviromentalism. This is due to the fact, that laws regarding renewable development have become so convoluted and restrictive over the years, that any BS-reactionary conservative boomer in bumf*k-nowhere can just turn over a couple of leaves find some bug or toad noone cares about and get the whole project cancelled, just because he doesn't like the sight of windturbines from his window and the species is deemed "protected".
F* that, I say. Tell me IN DETAIL how the loss of that f*ing toad (or microbe) effects the ecosystems WE rely on or stop standing in the way. Reminder: We (germans and most other europeans) exterminated bears and wolves in our countries and the ecosystems are fine. More yummy deer and boar for us.
i know nobody is going to read this but i want to let you know that i enjoy this world a lot more with You in it!
Half of the episode is John Oliver quoting people making good points and then acting like these are bad points without explaining why they are. I don’t know if the show got worse or if I’m just paying more attention to it but it’s a bit hard to watch
thats was supposed to be about uaps
Yall just wanna end the world sooner…. Are yall so bored now
We do all of these things for coal, oil, and many other resources already. I don't see any reason it won't happen somewhere that no human will ever see, to creatures that we don't even know exist, and for resources that would help the environment, and have high value
Corporations have ruined our planet for greed and continue to do everything they can to make it worse for a quick buck
They're literally banking on us not being able to easily see how bad they'll make things
Heritage foundation is blocking it
Did you know that peeing in a pool creates a small amount of mustard gas that causes irritation and, if enough, could be deadly. You certainly do not want to pee into an old cleaning bottle if bleach was in it.
So we're getting real life avatar here
YES – call Nissan corporate and get their story on the payoff costs. You really should have a lawyer send a cease and desist letter to these three dealerships outlining what you experienced. Illegal predatory financial crimes like this require consequences.
These greedy and destructive miners will use these nodules all up. And, since they take millions of years to make, that will be that and countless species will be decimated.
"Just because creatures are small, doesn't mean they're not important to the ecosystem around them"
Every resource-gathering industry needs to have mandatory classes every year to have this drilled into them.
Wow, seems like a good idea. We should try deep-sea farming too. That idea was actually proposed in an episode of The Beverly Hillbillies; Season 9, Episode 9, “Farm in the Ocean”.
That analogy about lazy placeholder names doesn't work: it would imply that "Last Week Tonight" actually TALKS about the "last week" tonight and not just whatever topic came up when John Googled "What's wrong with the world?"
3. Sodium batteries are not ready for prime time. They wear out very quickly and are in research phase only. There has been hype about them for years and it's never come to anything.
4. People do respond emotionally and not rationally to environmental damage. They will become enraged at a turtle with a straw in its nose and drive all the way across town to protest. The fossils in that car are doing far more damage than the thing they're mad at.
Mankind isn't going to save the Planet by applying an opinion about what to do about it. In fact every problem we are facing today became a problem because of an opinion applied to an original problem. As Einstein said; "No problem can be resolved at the level at which it manifests." But ever since the last person resolved a problem by the application of wisdom and insight — who could that have been, maybe Eisenhower, or Dag Hammarskjold? There's been only one method applied and only one question asked of me in the past nine years by any who are seeking positions of authority and power, "What is my opinion?"
What are you going to do with my opinion? Apply it? Or yours? Or anyone's? We are in the Hate and Doubt and Chaos and Frustration and Ugliness and all the dark we are experiencing for just this reason – the endless resolution of one problem after another by the application of someone or another's opinion, what they think might work, what they hope might work, what they know will benefit their cause, what someone said would make things go your way,,,
'IN GOD WE TRUST'? liars. Before God you would Lie? Yes, you bet, if it means personal power or wealth or prestige or…
Making Trump give me his endorsement. Trump I trust! But this God, I don't know anything about Him. But Trump, he knows how to get money and power and all the things we want. And how to get rid of the things we are afraid of. What a guy! And he'll make it so we too can grab your daughters pussy and no one will be able to do anything about it without getting hurt or ruined like Donald knows how to do. Hoorah!
It seems to me that if an environmentalist organization wanted to stop them from scooping up the nodules and half the sea floor, all they'd have to do is drop a bunch of rocks that are too big for the equipment to deal with.
"We're going to save the world by destroying the world, and not even consider the unintended longterm consequences because we'll be making a fuckton of money in the short term!", is absolute peak human.
Honestly surprised there's a part of earth we haven't damaged yet
Thank you Ronald Reagan for dying in 2004! We all appreciate you being gone. ❤❤
Sodium ions power us.
Nauru is the Appalachia of the world imo.
All those heavy metals are in our foods thanks to the soil they're grown in. Why doesn't he just plant wild mushrooms in heavy-metal laden soil, wait for those to grow, then extract the heavy metals from the mushrooms?! Duh…
Leave the ocean alone stop this insanity
Dogs and “wolves” are not really related…
Unless you are referring to the extinct “dire wolf” which was not actually a wolf but in fact a dog…
Humans have a strong likelihood to get things wrong…
You would think that by now we could recognize the likelihood of human error is statistically higher and being more probable than getting it right…
and that we would consider that high statistical probability in our actions and act accordingly…
But instead we erroneously make claims that sheep dogs are descendants of wolves…
Which they are not…
So we can’t even get the joke right…