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‘Any claim of not being environmentally damaging is meaningless, as we have no idea now what that environment is’ ... a grabber breaks off a section of hydrothermal vent. Photograph: Nautilus minerals
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A short bureaucratic note from a brutally degraded microstate in the South Pacific to a little-known institution in the Caribbean is about to change the world. Few people are aware of its potential consequences, but the impacts are certain to be far-reaching. The only question is whether that change will be to the detriment of the global environment or the benefit of international governance.

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