PARK CITY: He is best known as the hunky, sea-dwelling superhero 'Aquaman,' but actor Jason Momoa brought a stark and sober warning about the perils of deep-sea mining to the Sundance film festival on Friday (Jan 20). The Hawaiian-born A-lister narrates 'Deep Rising', a new documentary about the frenzied e
PARK CITY: He is best known as the hunky, sea-dwelling superhero"Aquaman," but actor Jason Momoa brought a stark and sober warning about the perils of deep-sea mining to the Sundance film festival on Friday .
Supporters of deep-sea mining claim that pellets of nickel and cobalt - used in electric car batteries - can be conveniently scooped off the seabed, helping reduce our fossil fuel reliance. "There's moments where I cried and got emotional" narrating the film, Momoa told AFP, before its world premiere at the festival in Utah.
The film goes behind-the-scenes as its chief executive Gerard Barron courts wealthy investors with promises that little harm will be done to"the most barren, desolate part of the planet", in contrast to the devastation that ongoing mining is causing rainforests.
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