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You asked the question, you got the answer.
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Treaties and the "heritage of all mankind" philosophy pretty much derailed the idea of farming and mining the deep seas. Agencies like the "Internatational Seabed Authority" did, in fact, attempt to socialize deep sea resources.

Many of the problems we have with ocean resources is a "tragedy of the commons" issue. Current international law does nothing much to address this.

More appropriately for this board, one of the greatest accomplishments of the L-5 Society was derailing attempts some years back to make outer space similarly off limits to private exploitation. The questions you asked and the answers given are germane to the issue of whether or not humans will be permitted to engage in productive activity in space.

I have high hopes for private space efforts, but much of our current space program is a government program paid for by tax money, and subject to the whims of national politics. It is probably impossible to keep politics completely off this board, but threads can be moved if they get too problematical.

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