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I know it doesn't look
like
a school, but it is something we decided to do, and it is extremely, extremely green.
It comes out of the ground
like
a train.
It grows as high as a coconut tree in two months and three years later it can be harvested to build buildings
like
this.
When the architects came, they brought us these things, and you've probably seen things
like
this.
And Balinese carpenters
like
this measured them with their bamboo rulers, selected the bamboo and built the buildings using age-old techniques, mostly by hand.
So what we have learned from social scientists and economists
like
Elinor Ostrom, who are studying the phenomenon of management of the commons on a local scale, is that there are certain prerequisites that you can put into place that enable you to manage and access open space for the good of one and all.
What I'd also
like
to convey is that it is not all doom and gloom that we are seeing in the high seas.
Sylvia's wish provides us with that leverage, that access to the heart of human beings, you might say, who have rarely seen places beyond their own toes, but are now hopefully going to become interested in the full life-cycle of creatures
like
these sea turtles, who indeed spend most of their time in the high seas.
This picture doesn't exactly show the plastics that I would
like
it to show, because I haven't been out there myself.
But what I'd
like
to get from this picture is that we truly do have an opportunity to launch a global initiative for protection.
So a place
like
the Costa Rica Dome could not technically qualify the time it's in the high seas.
But what we also know is that species
like
these sea turtles do not stay put in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Seascape.
These happen to go down to a vast South Pacific Gyre, where they spend most of their time and often end up getting hooked
like
this, or as bycatch.
So what I'd really
like
to suggest is that we need to scale-up.
It's provided us data
like
this, of tiny, little sooty shearwaters that make the entire ocean basin their home.
What I find so exciting is that the Census of Marine Life has looked at more than the tagging of pacific predators; it's also looked in the really unexplored mid-water column, where creatures
like
this flying sea cucumber have been found.
That is, we have regional management regimes within the exclusive economic zone, but we need to scale these up, we need to build their capacity, so they're
like
the Southern Ocean, where they do have the two-pronged fisheries and conservation organization.
So with that, I would just
like
to sincerely thank and honor Sylvia Earle for her wish, for it is helping us to put a face on the high seas and the deep seas beyond national jurisdiction.
My little boy's right there, and he's like, "She's not kidding.
I thought it was just
like
the movies, but the movies had not conveyed them in the powerful image that I was seeing full of bright red and orange and gray, and a full circle of explosion.
It's
like
dying from inside-out.
It seems
like
it's perfectly reasonable to ask that.
I've been asking people this question for about 10 years: "Where do you go when you really need to get something done?" I'll hear things like, the porch, the deck, the kitchen.
I'll hear things
like
an extra room in the house, the basement, the coffee shop, the library.
It's
like
the front door of the office is
like
a Cuisinart, and you walk in and your day is shredded to bits, because you have 15 minutes here, 30 minutes there, and something else happens, you're pulled off your work, then you have 20 minutes, then it's lunch, then you have something else to do ... Then you've got 15 minutes, and someone pulls you aside and asks you a question, and before you know it, it's 5 p.m., and you look back on the day, and you realize that you didn't get anything done.
You look back on your day, and you're like, "I got nothing done today.
That doesn't really seem
like
it makes a lot of sense, to me.
Because in other places, you can have interruptions
like
the TV, or you could go for a walk, or there's a fridge downstairs, or you've got your own couch, or whatever you want to do.
Now, managers and bosses will often have you think that the real distractions at work are things
like
Facebook and Twitter and YouTube and other websites, and in fact, they'll go so far as to actually ban these sites at work.
The real problems are what I
like
to call the M&Ms, the Managers and the Meetings.
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