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The authors argue that the stakes for the U.S. in preserving a rules-based maritime order and checking China's aggression in the South China Seas are too high for it to continue to remain outside of UNCLOS.
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The author surveys the emerging deep sea mining industry and argues that now is the time to engage and regulate the practice to ensure "the same industrial paradigm that destroyed much of the terrestrial ecosystems of our home planet to do the same in the deep sea."
[ More ]Mining in the deep sea for minerals is uncharted territory, but one company is well on its way to making it a reality. Now, the company is trying to convince skeptical audiences it's a good idea.
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The U.S. is challenging China's aggressive moves in the South China Seas but it lacks the ability to legally enforce them in international court as a non-party to UNCLOS.
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The author looks at the economic and scientific prospects of mining the ocean's vast genetic resources, but cautions that the U.S. is ill-prepared to take part in either of them as a non-signatory to both UNCLOS and the Convention to Protect Biological Diversity.
[ More ]It may be understandable that a terrestrial primate such as ourselves would pay little attention to a world so foreign, inaccessible, and inhospitable as the deep sea, but with growing threats to the region, it's time we do so.
[ More ]The author argues that U.S. non-party status to UNCLOS "continues to harm United States credibility and leadership in oceans matters and, more broadly, in our foreign policy."
[ More ]Senator John Kerry advocates for the ratification of UNCLOS, a treaty that "boasts an unprecedented breadth of support from Republican foreign policy experts, the United States military, and the hard-nosed, bottom line American business community."
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