Our goal is to ensure that metals derived from nodules are part of a circular value chain and are used to build up recyclable metal stocks. Our generation has the unenviable job of breaking and reversing trendlines underlying crises such as climate change, biodiversity loss and rising inequality. The job is herculean, and the urgency is inescapable. It is too late for pure idealism, magical thinking or self-loathing over how we ended up here in the first place. When it comes to extracting minerals for climate change solutions, 2030 is already yesterday, and most solutions now present themselves as difficult trade-offs between competing priorities. To provide the metals needed for the green energy transition, there will be more emissions, more social displacement, more habitat destruction and more biodiversity loss. The Metals Company’s (Nasdaq: TMC) mission is to build a carefully managed metal commons that will be used, recovered and reused again and again. Imagine if, a hundred years from now, our great- grandchildren could use the exact same metal atoms inside our phones, cars and homes.