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“In general, people just feel really scared to do anything to the ocean floor. The place is known to be unstable and earthquakes happen,” Oyama says.

The fear is that depressurising one part of the methane hydrate deposit might make the whole reserve become unstable.

“People worry that we’ll start extracting methane from the gas hydrates and get into a runaway breakdown where we can’t stop it,” says Ruppel.

that sounds bad

Resources exist to be consumed. And consumed they will be, if not by this generation then by some future. By what right does this forgotten future seek to deny us our birthright? None I say! Let us take what is ours, chew and eat our fill.

CEO Nwabudike Morgan “The Ethics of Greed”

{ Morgan as a before-the-fact Black President but-look-a-Randian made the SAME kind of sense as green ecoterroristmama Deidre Skye and Human Hive (oh shit the Chinamen) leader Sheng-Ji Yang and Lord’s Believers’ Miriam Godwinson (oh shit the Christofacists!!!1) did in the late 90s. I miss that? }