🌊 Billionaire technocrats are circling around the next pristine space to exploit and ruin for profit. They claim lofty goals - saving climate, ending poverty - while arrogantly disregarding science +taking advantage of small, already plundered nations in the global south to secure mining rights 🧵 1/
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John Oliver argues The Law of the Sea should finally be ratified, and The International Seabed Authority must be purged of people who are beholden to mining interests. 14/
168 countries have ratified The Law of the Sea, but in America it's long been reviled by the likes of Ronald Reagan and notorious anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly, who deployed “a classic tactic of fear-mongering about global socialism, shit-talking the UN and shoehorning Cuba in for good measure” 13/
Nauru has been plundered for its abundant phosphate, the mining of which was so destructive, Nauru has been called the most environmentally ravaged nation on Earth. The next vultures turned the impoverished island into a money-laundering haven & Australia remade it into its own detention center. 12/
Barron's offer to the islands is abysmal: 0.5% of the estimated value of the mined material. He's ruthlessly exploiting the fact that economic development opportunities there are scarce. And that is because throughout history, these nations have been repeatedly abused by outsiders for profit. 11/
