Papua New Guinea locals concerned over deep-sea mining's impact on culture and environment
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🗓️ 18 September 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In our globally connected lives, the companies that make the technology we rely on every day |
| 0:06.0 | can run headlong into traditional cultures and the environment that sustains them. |
| 0:11.0 | Last night, we featured a new potentially lucrative |
| 0:14.1 | industry deep sea mining. Tonight videographer Edward Kiernan and special |
| 0:18.9 | correspondent Villa Marks returned to Papa New Guinea and the Bismarck Sea where locals are fighting back to preserve |
| 0:25.6 | a vanishing way of life. |
| 0:29.2 | Rodney Kadog has been prepping bait like this since he was a teenager when he first ventured out alone in a canoe. |
| 0:38.0 | Fishing far out at sea or on reefs closer to shore has sustained Papine Guinea's coastal communities for centuries. |
| 0:45.2 | Like many local kids, Rodney started catching fish around age six. |
| 0:50.0 | He later moved to this village called Konao to get married. |
| 0:54.0 | Its shoreline on an island named New Island has been his home ever since |
| 1:00.0 | and fishing remains his primary job. |
| 1:02.0 | It can help us with our families. |
| 1:05.6 | It generates financial income which supports us |
| 1:08.6 | as well as sustains our livelihood in our village. |
| 1:11.9 | Fish is good. |
| 1:14.1 | Fishing helps feed his kids, and if he ever trades or sells his catch, it helps fun their |
| 1:19.8 | other needs too. But the bites don't come as often as they once did, perhaps due to a growing |
| 1:25.7 | population or the changing climate he's not sure. When I was younger it was a lot |
| 1:31.7 | faster. As soon as we cast our lines we would bring in a lot of fish |
| 1:36.3 | Compared to now when fish are scarce today. It takes a long time for us to catch one fish |
| 1:43.0 | Broadney often paddles out rapidly past the island's reef break, |
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