It does create jobs though. Think of all the small restaurants and shops and your guides in these areas. This provides real people and income that they go on to spend at other businesses in an area.

This is why places advertise for people to come, it boosts the economy.

As a bonus it’s much healthier. Win win. Though a large portion of the population won’t see it that way.

Technically he has yet to be found guilty of insurrection in the court of law. Right? Isn’t that case still ongoing? If so, this would make sense cause we assume he’s innocent until proven guilty

Am I missing something? Seems like they’re defineding civilians here

Was the blockade officially declared? I couldn’t find a source

I miss low quality weed, I feel like I get too high now. Maybe I’m just getting old lol

It wasn’t edible. They just swapped it out for a big pot tart at the end

I think the idea is that it could replace some land mining and also drop the price for precious metals. If you can drop these prices then batteries become cheaper which could encourage more people to move away from fossil fuels. However, we really don’t have a good understanding of the deep ocean floor at this point, so its hard to say what consequences this will have. Obviously it’s not ideal, but it could be the lesser of two evils.