The Trump administration on Monday signaled it is nearing approval for permits to mine the deep sea, part of a broader push to boost U.S. access to the critical minerals used across much of the country's economy.
Washington wants to speed up the race for deep metals. In an address this Monday, September 14th, US Secretary of the Interior, Doug Burgum, spoke of first permits "in the weeks and months to come." A perspective that revives the concerns for ecosystems still largely unknown. The ocean can be a poem by Cousteau, murmured in the deep blue and the fragility of the world; or it can be an American prose, dictated by gold fever and the tumult of gain…