"If commercial mining proceeds before sufficient baseline measurements are collected, the missing data cannot later be reconstructed. Training models on incomplete data sets will weaken early-warning capabilities." Exactly! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I pay every penny I owe in taxes, but I must say that this year really felt like a gut-punch on account of all the illegal shit that the federal government is doing with our hard-earned money

A new independent analysis of The Metals Company's deep sea mining pre-feasibility study was released today by Dr. Steven H. Emmerman, an expert in the environmental impacts of mining. The conclusions? Deep sea mining is a very bad investment! with @dsmcampaign.bsky.social

In early April 2026, NOAA confirmed TMC's application is in "substantial compliance," a major milestone that allows the company to proceed without extensive revisions. Mining these nodules would cause irreversible damage to unique deep-sea ecosystems. tonywright948952.substack.com/p/tmcs-reckl...

NOAA has finalized and enacted a rule merging deep-sea mining exploration and exploitation permits into a single "parallel review" process, accelerating approvals without sequential safeguards. Could you repost it? Thank you so much. tonywright948952.substack.com/p/tmcs-reckl...

TMC's hasty DSM application under NOAA's rushed new regs is a reckless eco-gamble, ballooning its CCZ footprint to 65,000 km2 while glossing over sediment plumes that could devastate abyssal biodiversity for millennia. NOAA must halt this-prioritizing precaution, not a destructive gold rush.

The title of this painting by March Avery is just too perfect: "Stop and Go," 2008

TMC's rush to mine the Clarion-Clipperton Zone ignores ISA warnings and UNCLOS protections for the common heritage of mankind-prioritizing profits over irreversible deep-sea biodiversity loss. Time to halt this reckless exploitation before it's too late.😡