31/3/2023

When we take away the personalities of the oceans (seas, mountains and other entities), when we take away their meaning, because we think that meaning is a purely human attribute, we allow such places to become industrial and mining waste.

The fact that we have ceased to be deeply connected and aligned with the world of nature implies that we are condemned to live as orphans, and this is true not only of human beings, but of all.

If only we could overcome our inability to look beyond the places we are connected to and where we live, and be able to perceive the ways of coexistence and social order from which a large part of human community is excluded, because otherwise, eventually, due to the demand for goods, security and consumption, all the power of planet Earth will be exhausted.

How can we find a place where two worlds that had so much in common when they were created, but have become so disconnected that we now have on one side people who need to live off the oceans, and on the other side people who consume the oceans as a resource?

And as for the idea of a resource that some consider the oceans (seas, rivers, forests) to be, where can we find a point of contact from where a path leads out of a situation in which one does not recognize the other?

#deepsea #deepseamining #stopdeepseamining

You can also read the statement here: Open statement of the educational and research environment Sea-Water Amplification (SWA) to end deep-sea mining

* the photo used in the article preview is a print screen from the documentary In Too Deep.