Dr. Sylvia Earle
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80 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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Great to be on board, really.
I am. I'm offshore in the Gulf of Mexico, one of my favorite places.
Not old enough yet. Still working on growing up.
I came along in 1935. You do the math.
I don't feel any particular age. I mean, my knees are a little creaky.
Divers, especially over time, because you keep stressing your ears. I don't hear as well as I did when I was a teenager.
But if you focus too much on how old or young you are and use it as a reason why you can't do something, why you shouldn't, I just say, why not? Why not? Oh, I love that. It's up to you. Yeah. You're too tall. You're too short. You're too fat. You're too thin. You're the wrong color. You speak the wrong language. Whatever it is, there are plenty of excuses. why people tell you you cannot do that.
Look them in the eye and say, why not? There may be reasons, maybe good reasons. Okay, but don't let somebody else tell you that.
And we both have an association with NRDC.
Well, I travel quite a lot right now. So morning is wherever I am. I do like to get up early. I also like to stay up late. Oh, you do? But I also like to sleep.
Don't you?
Well, as often as I can get there. Yeah. But running through airports, lifting bags into the overhead compartment on a long-distance flight.
Or just staying active every day.
What happened to Cousteau, too, he said the first time he put his face in the water, he came back up. He went down, came back up. It's like, where am I? I had no idea that this existed.
That it's alive. It's not just rocks and water.
From the top all the way to the bottom.
And even beneath the bottom of the ocean, all life needs water, at least life as we know it. And 97% of Earth's water is ocean. And the rest, that 3%, is mostly ice. Antarctic and Arctic and glacier ice. And we need to take care of the ocean. That's where life is. The ocean governs climate and weather. The ocean governs our life support system. The ocean makes Earth habitable, the living ocean.
It isn't just rocks and water. But 97% of the ocean is currently open for exploitation. Only 3% is highly or fully protected. And that's part of why I'm here on the Gulf of Mexico. There's a goal, I'm sure you know, many people probably don't know, that
Nations around the world, most of them, have come together to say that by 2030, it's not far away now, of course, but to safeguard 30% of the land and sea that give back to nature to secure our safety, our security, by securing our life support system, the diversity of life in the ocean.
So many possible things. Nobody can do... I can't do what you do, Julia. I mean, I can't do what anybody else does. Everybody has power. My question is, what have you got? Do you have a way with music? Are you a great communicator? Are you good with kids? Do you love animals?
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