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At the same time, our global fisheries are two-and-a-half times larger than what our oceans can sustainably support, meaning that humans take far more fish from the ocean than the oceans can naturally replace.
We have to stop plundering our oceans the way we have.
Amy was there as the TED Prize Director; me, an entrepreneur from the Netherlands and concerned citizen, love to dive, passion for the oceans.
But a few months after we got off the boat, we got to a meeting at Conservation International, where the Director General of WorldFish was talking about aquaculture, asking a room full of environmentalists to stop turning from it, realize what was going on and to really get involved because aquaculture has the potential to be just what our oceans and populations need.
In the next 35 years, we are going to need an additional 85 million tons to meet demand, which is one-and-a-half times as much, almost, as what we catch globally out of our oceans.
It's destroying our oceans.
Recently, an article came out of Stanford saying that if 50 percent of the world's aquaculture industry would stop using fish meal, our oceans would be saved.
Far, far away from shipping lanes and fishing fleets, diving into these waters is a poignant reminder of what our oceans once looked like.
And through my photography, I want to pass on the message that it is not too late for our oceans.
Management of forests, transportation, the oceans, the melting of the permafrost.
But on a global basis, 93 percent of all the extra heat energy is trapped in the oceans.
The warmer oceans are evaporating much more water vapor into the skies.
It should be part in the oceans, part on land.
It is older than any human artifact, older than life on Earth, older than the continents and the oceans between them.
They cross borders and oceans all the time.
On this map, we have taken the seas and the oceans out.
And a thought occurred to me: How much do we really know about our oceans?
How much do we really know about our oceans?
The first reason is just how vast oceans are, covering 70 percent of the planet, and yet we know they drive complex planetary systems like global weather, which affect all of us on a daily basis, sometimes dramatically.
It is easy to understand why: the oceans are an unforgiving place, and to collect in situ data, you need a big ship, capable of carrying a vast amount of fuel and large crews, costing hundreds of millions of dollars each, or, big buoys tethered to the ocean floor with a four-mile-long cable and weighted down by a set of train wheels, which is both dangerous to deploy and expensive to maintain.
So what is going on in the oceans?
Our sun radiates energy, which is absorbed by oceans as heat and then partially released into the atmosphere.
Gases in our atmosphere like CO2 get dissolved into our oceans.
And actually, the oceans provide up to 20 kilos of fish per human per year.
And beyond fish, the oceans affect all of us daily as they drive global weather systems, which affect things like global agricultural output or can lead to devastating destruction of lives and property through hurricanes, extreme heat and floods.
Our oceans are pretty much unexplored and undersampled, and today, we still know more about other planets than our own.
And my question is this: "why are we ignoring the oceans?"
If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one-year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.
All the things we're going to walk through in our explorations and discoveries of the oceans were mostly discoveries made by accident.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recently estimated that about 95 percent of our oceans remain unexplored.
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