This is a volcano snail. Their shells are made of iron and they live around hydrothermal vents that can reach up to 750 degrees Fahrenheit.

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[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The problem is that his claims are different than that. His claim is that they are endangered because deep sea mining is destroying their habitat.

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His claim is that they are endangered because deep sea mining is destroying their habitat.

That's not what he said.

Risks exist before the event occurs. You don't have to already have cancer to be at risk of cancer.

If there were billions of them in a million different habitats, they wouldn't be endangered no matter what deep-sea mining was taking place. They are endangered because there are so few of them in such a specialised habitat where deep sea mining is likely to take place, so they are at risk. They could be at risk from many different things, and one of them is deep-sea mining at the vents. Doesn't matter whether there is large-scale mining happening right now or not, people are planning it and the risk exists.

They're not at risk from Donald Trump building a golf course in their habitat, or at risk from deforestation for palm oil, or at risk from global warming, or at risk of being beheaded by ISIS terrorists. But they are at risk of deep-sea mining.

It's common sense really.