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Topic: Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation, environmental impact assessment.
6. Critically examine the impact of commercialization of sea-floor mining on marine life. (250 words)
Reference: Live Mint
Why the question:
The article explains how digging up the ocean floor for metals could prove disastrous.
Key Demand of the question:
Critically examine the impact of commercialization of sea-floor mining on marine life.
Directive:
Critically examine – When asked to ‘Examine’, we have to look into the topic (content words) in detail, inspect it, investigate it and establish the key facts and issues related to the topic in question. While doing so we should explain why these facts and issues are important and their implications. When ‘critically’ is suffixed or prefixed to a directive, one needs to look at the good and bad of the topic and give a fair judgment.
Structure of the answer:
Introduction:
Start with the context of the question. A startup, The Metals Co, holds prospecting rights over 90,000 square miles of seabed and plans to indulge in seabed mining.
Body:
The seafloor contains potato-sized rocks that contain many metals needed to make electric-car batteries. Many perceive that seabed mining as a green alternative to land-based mineral extraction—and potentially a hugely lucrative business. But it is not completely true.
Talk briefly about polymetallic nodules.
Highlight the challenges in Sea floor mining.
Discuss the impact of it in detail upon the marine life.
Conclusion:
Conclude with what needs to be done; the UN should call for a moratorium on seafloor mining. Further, countries should consider challenging any permits at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and other legal forums.
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