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Those then serve as lasting reserves of water that farmers can use to irrigate their crops.
Peatlands in polar environments store about a third of the global soil carbon reserves.
In his important work "The Wealth of Nations," Adam Smith argued, amongst many other things, that the measurement of a country's wealth was not just its gold and silver reserves.
Consider this: Starting right here at the convention center, we can find the nearby aquarium, we can look at where we're sitting, and then we can cruise up the coast to the big aquarium, the ocean, and California's four national marine sanctuaries, and the new network of state marine reserves that are beginning to protect and restore some of the assets We can flit over to Hawaii and see the real Hawaiian Islands: not just the little bit that pokes through the surface, but also what's below.
And so we used to take our old Ford Cortina Estate, and with my sister, we'd pile in the back, take our tents and go camping in the different game reserves in Southern Africa.
So Rome effectively waged war on places like Carthage and Egypt just to get its paws on their grain reserves.
The whole world, at 1.2 trillion estimated reserves, only gives us about 45 years.
But, as I was approaching the end of my water reserves, luckily, our courses were converging.
One very clear way is the marine protected areas, especially no-take reserves that we set aside to allow for the recovery for marine life.
So let me just give you a summary of what no-take reserves do.
In some places up to 10 times larger biomass inside the reserves.
So there is spill over; there are benefits beyond the boundaries of these reserves that help people around them, while at the same time the reserve is protecting the entire habitat.
Reserves are like savings accounts.
And if we think about the increase of biomass inside the reserves, this is like compound interest.
Two examples, again, of how these reserves can benefit people.
A creation of a network of reserves would provide direct employment for more than a million people plus all the secondary jobs and all the secondary benefits.
The problem is that we can create these large reserves only in places where there are no people, where there is no social conflict, where the political cost is really low and the economic cost is also low.
Well, there are three main reasons why we don't have tens of thousands of small reserves: The first one is that people have no idea what marine reserves do, and fishermen tend to be really, really defensive when it comes to regulating or closing an area, even if it's small.
Which takes us to the third reason, why we don't have many more reserves, is that the funding models have been wrong.
First, we need to develop a global awareness campaign to inspire local communities and governments to create no-take reserves that are better than what we have now.
The philanthropy sink as the only way to create reserves is not sustainable.
We really need to develop models, business models, where coastal conservation is an investment, because we already know that these marine reserves provide social, ecological and economic benefits.
This fund was supposed to be used for the rehabilitation of water reserves all over the country, before the outbreak of war.
And I wanted to close this program with a story of hope, a story I did on marine reserves as sort of a solution to the problem of overfishing, the global fish crisis story.
We only have two percent of the world's oil reserves; 65 percent of them are in the Persian Gulf.
His buddy Ben tells him that if he joins the army (the reserves to be precise), he'll become "Army People" and therefore be able to drive big trucks, cars and other such vehicles without ever having to leave the base and go into actual combat.
I would have liked not to have reserves about Guédiguian's work but it is impossible.
I understand there are enormous reserves of coal in the United States alone, enough to provide such fuel for the country for at least a century.
In this film, however, power from solar, Hydrogen, and wind sources are all dismissed out of hand as impracticable alternatives and cannot, or will not, be developed before we all suddenly starve, freeze, run amok, or whatever they suggest is going to happen in twenty years when oil reserves are suddenly depleted.
Yet, there is no mention of a significant technology which is already in place, using a resource in rather great abundance, and whose refinement and improvement is light years from the hopelessness suggested by one of their experts, who likens the challenges we face in surviving the depletion of oil reserves to that of colonizing Pluto in ten years...
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