Bayan
01-16-2023, 12:33 AM
The adoption of electric cars has been hailed as an important step in curbing the use of fossil fuels and fighting climate change. There is a snag, however: such vehicles require around six times as many metals as their gasoline-powered counterparts.
A giant storehouse of the necessary resources sits at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. But retrieving them may, in turn, badly damage the environment.
Guest: Eric Lipton (https://www.nytimes.com/by/eric-lipton?smid=pc-thedaily), an investigative reporter for The New York Times.
Background reading:
Mining in the Pacific Ocean was meant to benefit poorer countries, but an international agency gave a Canadian company access (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/29/world/deep-sea-mining.html) to seabed sites.
Miles below the surface, harvesting metallic nodules may threaten animals found nowhere else on the planet (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/08/29/world/deep-sea-riches-mining-nodules.html).
Here are some of the seabed authority emails and other documents (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22266044-seabed-mining-selected-documents-2022) The Times assembled as it worked on its investigation of seabed mining.
For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily (http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily). Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.
أكثر... (https://www.nytimes.com/the-daily)
A giant storehouse of the necessary resources sits at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. But retrieving them may, in turn, badly damage the environment.
Guest: Eric Lipton (https://www.nytimes.com/by/eric-lipton?smid=pc-thedaily), an investigative reporter for The New York Times.
Background reading:
Mining in the Pacific Ocean was meant to benefit poorer countries, but an international agency gave a Canadian company access (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/29/world/deep-sea-mining.html) to seabed sites.
Miles below the surface, harvesting metallic nodules may threaten animals found nowhere else on the planet (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/08/29/world/deep-sea-riches-mining-nodules.html).
Here are some of the seabed authority emails and other documents (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22266044-seabed-mining-selected-documents-2022) The Times assembled as it worked on its investigation of seabed mining.
For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily (http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily). Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.
أكثر... (https://www.nytimes.com/the-daily)