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Today I'm going to take you
on
a voyage to some place so deep, so dark, so unexplored that we know less about it than we know about the dark side of the moon.
It's a place marked
on
ancient maps as "here be monsters."
Instead, they just make me green with envy that my colleague from IUCN was able to go
on
this journey to the south of Madagascar seamounts to actually take photographs and to see these wondrous creatures of the deep.
With an average depth of the oceans of 4,000 meters, in fact, the high seas covers and provides nearly 90 percent of the habitat for life
on
this Earth.
So today I'm going to take you
on
a voyage to cast light
on
some of the outdated myths and legends and assumptions that have kept us as the true stakeholders in the high seas in the dark.
And then finally, we're going to try to develop and pioneer a new perspective
on
high seas governance that's rooted in ocean-basin-wide conservation, but framed in an arena of global norms of precaution and respect.
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.
Well, as I said, we had a group of photographers that went out
on
board ships and actually photographed the activities in process.
But we also spent many hours in the basements of the United Nations, trying to work with governments to make them understand what was going
on
so far away from land that few of us had ever even imagined that these creatures existed.
The captain of a New Zealand vessel who was just down there is reporting a significant decline in the number of the Ross Sea killer whales, who are directly dependent
on
the Antarctic toothfish as their main source of food.
It's an oceanographic phenomenon that shifts in time and space
on
a seasonal basis.
Many already have transponders
on
board that allow us to find out where they are and even what they're doing.
At the same time, we need to think locally, which is the joy and marvel of Sylvia's hope spot wish, is that we can shine a spotlight
on
many of these previously unknown areas, and to bring people to the table, if you will, to actually make them feel part of this community that truly has a stake in their future management.
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.
So
on
this tour, I hope I provided you with a new perspective of the high seas: one, that it is our home too, and that we need to work together if we are to make this a sustainable ocean future for us all.
So, a funny thing happened
on
my way to becoming a brilliant, world-class neuropsychologist: I had a baby.
And that's not to say I ever went
on
to become a brilliant, world-class neuropsychologist.
But I did go
on
to be a reasonably astute, arguably world-class worrier.
Now, when the kid
on
the right doesn't get up, we know they've had a concussion.
But how about the kid
on
the left, or the athlete that leaves the field of play?
From there, their risk for a third injury, greater still, and so
on.
Recently, one of my graduate students, Tom, said, "Kim, I've decided to wear a bike helmet
on
the way to class."
And I kept
on
staring at it until it disappeared.
I went back to my bed, and I prayed, and I secretly thanked God that that missile did not land
on
my family's home, that it did not kill my family that night.
Thirty years have passed, and I still feel guilty about that prayer, for the next day, I learned that that missile landed
on
my brother's friend's home and killed him and his father, but did not kill his mother or his sister.
The front of wars is increasingly non-human eyes peering down
on
our perceived enemies from space, guiding missiles toward unseen targets, while the human conduct of the orchestra of media relations in the event that this particular drone attack hits a villager instead of an extremist.
You learn to play an international relations school
on
your way out and up to national and international leadership.
We are missing the stories of Violet, who, despite surviving genocide in the church massacre, she kept
on
going on, burying bodies, cleaning homes, cleaning the streets.
There is a side that is focused
on
winning battles, and there is a side that is focused
on
winning life.
They are women who are standing
on
their feet in spite of their circumstances, not because of it.
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