How humans are exploiting the oceans | DW Documentary

"Mines are often located in politically unstable countries," is the nicest way of alluding to the correlation between "you guys have a lot of minerals" and "we would like those minerals, while paying your people as little as possible and siphoning money from your government to cover our operating costs"

I saw the title and asked myself 'what are human not exploiting'? We are everywhere like a bad disease!

Greed and ignorance is the perfect recipe for disaster... And humanity is in no shortage of theese...🙆

"We won't rest, until our very own world is destroyed" - DD

"Science never solves a problem without creating ten more." George Bernard Shaw.

57:53 "Personally, I would rather consume less (...) and not touch the sea floor"

Thank you Anna and the Lantuna Conservation team. I really appreciate what you do, and am sure it'll not be in vain.

AS ALWAYS IT IS GREED! Profits now, never worry about consequences. Our oceans are down to being almost fished out. I am old and have been aware of this since I was 14. Now I am a grandfather to four wonderful kids and feel ashamed of what planet we are giving them.

Is there a danger? You are showing the Robots hovering up the minerals. When it hovers up the minerals it also hovers up everything else including the creatures, organisms and destroy the surface sea bed.

Human beings dig immense mines in search of rare minerals, transport what they find for thousands of kilometers where they will be refined and transformed into raw material for sophisticated electronic products. These goods, sold at high prices, became trash in less than a decade. Their obsolescence is programmed. Recycling the minerals used in these things is troublesome, not always economically viable. No matter how much rare ore is available in the trash, new mines need to be discovered and exploited, now even at the bottom of the ocean. The logic of electronics production is the constant waste of increasingly rare and expensive materials. This is a fundamental flaw of modern economics that economists prefer not to even discuss. How long should a smartphone last? The one I'm using now is 2 years old. Hopefully it will continue to work reasonably well for another year before the battery dies or the tiny buttons break (this happened with my previous smartphone). If industries were required to design and produce smartphones that last 5 years or more, a good deal of waste could be avoided. But that would reduce their profit and industrialists prefer to pay bribes to politicians to keep everything as it is, no matter how much waste, garbage and destruction of nature this economic model produces. So there is no hope for our civilization.

Such an informative and convincing documentary! Respect for whole team who made it happen.

I use to love watching Jacques Cousteau when i was younger. Very nice to see his daughter is continuing his efforts to preserve the oceans. Jacques is a true legend and will always be remembered.

The sea turtle crawling around on the rocks looking for the sand from which she was liked birthed... Breaks my heart man.

Going from space junk to sea junk:(

The lady @11:00 is absolutely convinced mining the ocean floor is an alternative and will save rain forests. She forgets if they aren’t doing it, other people will be. The producer or consumer will still not care where the minerals came from. Sad world

Saving the climate by sacrificing the climate, burning the bridge we're trying to cross.

Greed without regulation, nor accountability.

I want to say thank you so much for peoples who are working hard to save our environment and animals 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏.

Destroying the natural environment to build artificial one

Excellent rational high quality documentary work from DW as usual. Fast becoming one the best broadcasters in the world.