How much ocean are you willing to sacrifice?

How much of your life are you going to bet as if you were throwing dice?

Ancient black stones taken by machine-like robot clones,

slavering over the billions of dollars that could be reaped from little subsea rocks

while the profiters sit on their thrones with their expensive phones.

These “batteries in a rock” hurt natural resources by force.

You do not know how such actions affect the life-forms that live in the abyssal depths;

the marine life farther up the water column would have rife strife instead of solemn life,

or the ocean itself could be greatly, permanently impacted from this notion of motion.

Biodiversity loss may happen because of this; while you don’t have a spare decade to wait

for new research to see that this is unhealthy; you must not dig plenty till the ocean floors empty.

That campaign for resources will forment claims over who owns which areas of the ocean floor,

which will open the door for more risks such as the uproar of war while oceanlife become sore.

The world’s oceans are already severely stressed by pollution, overfishing, and climate change.

Since these rocks formed over millions of years, any harm “is in effect irreversible.”

huge amounts of carbon embedded on the ocean floor could be released, 

silt and clay stirred up by the collector vehicles will also rise up into the water.

noise and light from the vehicles affect creatures evolved to live in silence and darkness.

seabed mining operations could echo for hundreds of miles through the water, 

potentially interfering with aquatic organisms’ ability to navigate and find food and mates.

silt-infused water that accompanied rocks will have to be dumped back into the sea, 

creating another potentially dangerous sediment plume that will loom and then doom fish.

These rocks are needed to fuel the electricity business but in the same sense they are a risk.

“Everybody can say, ‘I don’t want to harm the ocean.’ But they sure want their Teslas.”

There’s a widespread feeling that it is too soon to be giving out permission to start mining,

“No one is sure how this will play out.” caused by doubt about this route that may bomb out.

You are unknowingly challenging the existence of these ocean life creatures by having machines digging up the bottom of the ocean in search of minerals and materials for you to use in order to feel happy about not doing similar actions to the wildlife that is above ocean waters.