Ocean
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We need deep-diving subs, new technologies to explore the
ocean.
And no one would decide that the
ocean
was without fish on the basis of one glass of water.
Sadly, their parents mistake bottle caps for food tossing about in the
ocean
surface.
Here's what our trawl samples from the plastic soup our
ocean
has become look like.
We wanted to see if the most common fish in the deep ocean, at the base of the food chain, was ingesting these poison pills.
Now, the market can do a lot for us, but it can't fix the natural system in the
ocean
we've broken.
All the king's horses and all the king's men ... will never gather up all the plastic and put the
ocean
back together again.
Narrator (Video): The levels are increasing, the amount of packaging is increasing, the "throwaway" concept of living is proliferating, and it's showing up in the
ocean.
Straining the
ocean
for plastic would be beyond the budget of any country and it might kill untold amounts of sea life in the process.
The solution, Moore says, is to stop the plastic at its source: stop it on land before it falls in the
ocean.
So I'm 40 feet off the deck, which is like looking down at the top of your shoe, you know, and it's doing this in the
ocean.
You know, if we could cover nine percent of the world's
ocean
in seaweed farms, we could draw down the equivalent of all of the greenhouse gases we put up in any one year, more than 50 gigatons.
You can see the seaweed growing on that rack, 25 meters down in the
ocean
there.
One of the things that really worries me, when I talk about this, is the fate of biodiversity in the deep
ocean.
If we are putting gigatons of seaweed into the deep ocean, we're affecting life down there.
The good news is that we know that a lot of seaweed already reaches the deep ocean, after storms or through submarine canyons.
I mean, it may be that these ocean-going seaweed farms will need to be mobile, to distribute the seaweed across vast areas of the ocean, rather than creating a big stinking pile in one place.
What people are doing in places like this is something called
ocean
permaculture.
And in
ocean
permaculture, you grow fish, shellfish and seaweed all together.
If we covered nine percent of the world's oceans in
ocean
permaculture, we would be producing enough protein in the form of fish and shellfish to give every person in a population of 10 billion 200 kilograms of high-quality protein per year.
And already, as I've explained,
ocean
permaculture is well on the road to being economically sustainable.
I managed to stick in both the zeppelin and an
ocean
liner out of sheer enthusiasm.
Buried on the
ocean
floor, the remnants of this powerful device remain in the realm of Ahti, god of water— where they grind salt for the seas to this very day.
Thirty-four years, 400 scuba dives and one PhD later, I'm still completely enamored with the
ocean.
As I stand here today, only 2.2 percent of the
ocean
is protected.
Reverse climate change and overfishing, protect half the
ocean
and stop pollution running from land.
But 100 years after Darwin's letter, deep-sea hydrothermal vents, or hot vents, were discovered in the
ocean.
And since the discovery of these deep-sea vents, the favored scenario for an origin of life has been in the
ocean.
And this is for good reason: deep-sea vents are well-known in the ancient rock record, and it's thought that the early Earth had a global
ocean
and very little land surface.
So the probability that deep-sea vents were abundant on the very early Earth fits well with an origin of life in the
ocean.
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