Comments by "Bo McGillacutty" (@Mrbfgray) on "Gold Beneath The Waves: The Deep Sea Mining Industry" video.

@dadsonworldwide3238 Different topic but I can't argue with that. Government 'solutions' are generally wrong and private sector responds to it's clientele efficiently.
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Why couldn't it be done automatically on a large scale? We have highly efficient methods of selecting viable vs reject produce at speeds your eye can't keep up with, picking rocks off the mud with minimal disturbance seems very doable to me.
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@Box545x39 These things can be stringently regulated. For example--seafloor nodules could be individually plucked from the surface with minimal disruption to the mud, particularly with AI (artificial intelligence) . A wide platform hovering above the floor with multiple robotic arms snatching the chunks as it progresses along. Thrusters would be well above to eliminate kicking up plumes of sediments. The operation would be continuously monitored in real time to verify minimal disruption, lights an cameras. If all that rigor delays economic implementation, so be it. The fact that those nodules are so uniquely concentrated in valuable minerals will likely eventually make it viable. Comparisons to traditional gold mining is silly, not only is gold of limited, almost no utility, but the ore bodies in question are radically different.
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@dadsonworldwide3238 What's your solution?
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@Box545x39 I think most do grasp it, regardless they will either embrace it or not be involved at all. While I lean heavily Libertarian for good reason, externalities like the environment must and can be regulated. Market forces alone don't consistently account for such tho customers of said products can and often do enforce high standards, others will not. Figure out how to comply or forget about it. There needs to be international standards which is a big hurdle. Currently--reckless methods and over fishing from the likes of China is a far bigger concern, similar for the dams that have gutted the previously spectacular salmon runs decades ago to the present in Pacific N. West. USA fisheries are mostly properly controlled.
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@Box545x39 Yes it should be common sense. Some 'damned' rivers have been restored here in the PNWest too but the Columbia system is the biggy, it too has significant advocacy for dismantling and returning to wild, doesn't seem likely soon but eventually. That system provided unbelievable prolific salmon runs almost yr round, now just a trickle of endangered Chinooks. Every reason to believe it can be fully restored which feeds the forests too and everything in them. The use case for those reservoirs seems to be diminishing, US went dam crazy early/mid last century. At least one segment of Orcas have also been heavily impacted by loss of those salmon. Effects are wide ranging. Interesting to consider that North of and including Washington State, all those rivers and salmon runs can only be max of around 12k yrs old as the ice sheets had covered them for the prior 100k yrs roughly. That's very young as life and geology goes. So nature clearly can restore/create new runs where fresh 'sterile' rivers go. We can dramatically accelerate that process no doubt.
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