Ocean
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This has given me a very special relationship with the
ocean.
So today I'd like to share with you some of my
ocean
adventures and tell you a little bit about what they've taught me, and how I think we can maybe take some of those lessons and apply them to this environmental challenge that we face right now.
She doesn't look very much like an
ocean
rower.
And no matter how long I've spent on the ocean, I haven't yet managed to muster a decent beard, and I hope that it remains that way.
You're in the middle of the
ocean.
I'd never been very good at fixing stuff when I was living my old life, but it's amazing how resourceful you can become when you're in the middle of the
ocean
and there's only one way to get to the other side.
So this might be a good moment to take a quick time-out to answer a few FAQs about
ocean
rowing that might be going through your mind.
Unfortunately,
ocean
rowboats very rarely go in a straight line.
So I had to launch a very expensive salvage operation and then wait another nine months before I could get back out onto the
ocean
again.
But it doesn't react very well to being immersed in ocean, which is what happened to it.
And I try to use this to bring awareness to these environmental issues, to bring a human face to the
ocean.
We might think that anything that we do as an individual is just a drop in the ocean, that it can't really make a difference.
What it is now is mud, and the area of the
ocean
floor that has been transformed from forest to level mud, to parking lot, is equivalent to the entire area of all the forests that have ever been cut down on all of the earth in the history of humanity.
A friend and I did this thing in Hollywood we called Hollywood
ocean
night, and I was trying to figure out how to explain to actors what's going on.
And dead zones will get bigger and bigger and they'll start to merge, and we can imagine something like the dead-zonification of the global, coastal
ocean.
As the surface of the
ocean
gets warmer, the water is lighter when it's warmer, it becomes harder and harder to turn the
ocean
over.
And, at the same time, water from the surface, which is rich in oxygen, doesn't make it down and the
ocean
turns into a desert.
So I'm going to get us all on a time machine, and we're going to the left; we're going to go back to the past to see what the
ocean
was like.
And you already heard that less than one percent of the
ocean'
s protected.
Scientific studies recommend that at least 20 percent of the
ocean
should be protected.
Well, there are a couple estimates of how much it would cost to create a network of protected areas covering 20 percent of the
ocean
that would be only a fraction of what we are now paying; the government hands out to a fishery that is collapsing.
If it's so clear that these savings accounts are good for the environment and for people, why don't we have 20, 50 percent of the
ocean?
And I'd like to finish with one thought, which is that no one organization alone is going to save the
ocean.
It would only cost 16 billion to set up 20 percent of the
ocean
as marine protected areas that actually give new living choices to the fishermen as well.
They tell us about our world in a lot of different ways, and particularly the
ocean.
When they come back, they actually dump this oily ballast water into the
ocean.
I would like to share with you this morning some stories about the
ocean
through my work as a still photographer for National Geographic magazine.
And after even 30 years of doing this, after 30 years of exploring the ocean, I never cease to be amazed at the extraordinary encounters that I have while I'm at sea.
But if they don't get 12 days, they can fall into the
ocean
and die.
And with that, I saw the potential to begin doing other stories about
ocean
problems.
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