International negotiators just missed a deadline to regulate deep-sea mining. Now what?

"A low-impact mining industry is unlikely to materialize in the absence of ISA rules governing environmental standards and oversight. However, if a company submits a commercial deep-sea mining application before the ISA completes those rules — officially called the Mining Code — the agency will be legally obligated to consider the request nonetheless. Some industry watchdogs fear this will trigger a literal race to the bottom, in which companies destroy fragile seafloor ecosystems in the pursuit of profits."

But: there is NO such thing as a "low-impact mining industry." A total ban on this necrocapitalist extractivism is called for. The profiteers and their "green liberal" sycophants argue that if we want solar energy, etc., we should just lie down and accept. The lynchpin is their unspoken assumption that capitalist growth with its attendant consumerism must continue. We need to tear their shit down.

https://grist.org/regulation/international-negotiators-just-missed-a-deadline-to-regulate-deep-sea-mining-now-what/

#ecologicalcrises #ecologicaldestruction #capitalism #biodiversity #biodiversitycrisis #climatecrisis #ExtinctionRebellion #ecosocialism #SystemChangeNotClimateChange

A future of political theory, when justice is multispecies - Reconceptualising justice
"A narcissistic, colonial, and extractivist anthropocentric worldview, embodied in the individual subject and their rights, is not mere theory; it has been responsible for much violence and destruction across numerous human and more-than-human worlds. Human chauvinism and individualism have been replaced by principles of maintaining entangled coexistence of multiple entities in a relational system as the basis of #justice."

https://www.sydney.edu.au/sydney-environment-institute/news/2023/03/27/a-future-of-political-theory--when-justice-is-multispecies.html
#Individualism #Exceptionalism #Responsibility #EcologicalDestruction #MoreThanHuman world #Biodiversity

@danielbowdoin

Thank you for linking to this powerful account of the ecological dimension of the Ukraine war, by #AnnaBadkhen and others.

"The environment does not have a chance at winning a war, it always loses."

@emergencemagazine are on Mastodon, bravo.

#war
#EcologicalDestruction
#LateralDamage
#WarAndNature
#Ukraine

@lacybarry That's a wonderful form of saying Thanks and shows once more how wrong it is to treat wild animals just as species and not as individual beings, too. But every Big Money generating construction project then couldn't go on without limits like the 300 ha #deforestation for Musk's gigafactory in Germany now trying to add even 170 ha of #ecologicaldestruction ...