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Experts from around the Pacific discuss Deep Sea Mining (DSM) authorizations and their connection to ecological racism at an upcoming webinar.
My simultaneous optimism and pessimism were born from the understanding that the underlying drivers of climate change and biodiversity loss are different. Climate change is caused primarily by the burning of fossil fuels – an activity that was substantially reduced during the lockdown but is now returning to pre-pandemic levels – whereas biodiversity loss is caused not only by climate change, but also significantly by habitat loss (such as the conversion of land to agriculture), pollution, overharvesting, and the spread of invasive species – few of which abated during the pandemic. In f...