Where has all the nuance gone?

This podcast has 3 aims

1- to share knowledge about deep sea mining, and about the drivers of the deep sea mining conversation: critical minerals, ecosystem integrity, geopolitics, ethical values.

2- to give access to viewpoints from all sides of the deep sea mining conversation. So that those involved have a chance to be heard and understood and to hear and to understand one another.

3- To explore the central issues of sustainability, externalities, and the energy transition through the test case of deep sea mining.

Philosophers like to choose artificially extreme versions of real world problems as thought experiments to help explore a point. I was originally attracted to deep sea mining as a thought experiment for the material impacts of the energy transition and the difficult trade-offs that we are forced to face. Deep sea mining is a useful test case for many of these ideas, both because it is a quintessential dilemma of the current moment, and because the nuances and details which are often being left out of the conversations are crucial for understanding and for making responsible decisions.

Going forward I will release interviews with key deep sea mining experts as well as relevant thinkers on related topics.

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