Here’s an Interesting Story…

…which I think the world probably knows little about (I’m just helping spread it a little, in case it becomes a ‘big’, interesting story).

‘Deep-sea mining entrepreneur Gerard Barron is banking on Trump to help him realise his dream’ – ABC News Online, Australia – September 8, 2025

I have to say I hold no special views on the subject, or the man behind it (also an Australian). The days when I considered ‘environmental’ issues to be important are long gone, subjected to the prevalent view that such issues are never going to matter much in relation to mankind’s headlong rush to wherever it is we are going. Public opinions and dissenting views are always overridden by progressive necessity, especially by those who can sniff a profit to be made. Men like Elon Musk and this guy you have probably never heard of yet – Gerard Barron. Sounds like an entrepreneurial certainty for a one-off personal success story to me. And with those powerful entities who take great pride in stepping on toes, like Donald Trump, still in the flow of things, what chance is there of stopping them. Or even whether or not they should be stopped, or perhaps even encouraged and backed. All such raised dissenting voices and actions, while raising ripples for a while, are not going to effect the end result – which will inevitably pound its way to an eventual conclusion of one sort or another.

Or perhaps I am getting too old to care any more.

But I would like to stay around for at least a while longer to see if there is a discernible wind direction, or an alteration to the direction of the current one.

A new world order is emerging within the vast body of humanity’s Global Majority. A fairer one. Perhaps a more reasonable one. A more harmonial one. But even that, I think, may not curb the excesses of a species hungry and thirsty for more of everything, all the time. And at the same eventual cost, and benefits, whether shared more fairly or not, differing only in that from the investments of the current headlong trip to nowhere do. Yet, how differently, if at all, will the drivers of this new push view this interesting new possibility? It seems they already have plans to mine both the Arctic and the Antarctic Oceans. I am no longer disposed to say whether those may be good or untenable positions for those they are intended to serve. Or whether they will make little difference to the outcome. And no matter what systemic planning goes into our future, can it impress on us – or the future ‘us’ – a need, if such there be, to materially alter that outcome?

This has all the hallmarks of just being another interesting story along the way.

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