Dr. Sylvia Earle

And look at the choices that we could have made if we had known. Look at the plastics, for heaven's sakes. If we had any idea, they're so useful. They've been so... much a part of our modern culture that it's hard to imagine a time when there were no plastics. But I can imagine because there were none. And as I grew up, I embraced them. But now we know. I see. Imagine if all of us could go.

And look at the choices that we could have made if we had known. Look at the plastics, for heaven's sakes. If we had any idea, they're so useful. They've been so... much a part of our modern culture that it's hard to imagine a time when there were no plastics. But I can imagine because there were none. And as I grew up, I embraced them. But now we know. I see. Imagine if all of us could go.

Right. How much more we could save. There'd be more tunas. There'd be more elephants. There'd be more big old trees. There'd be a better chance.

Right. How much more we could save. There'd be more tunas. There'd be more elephants. There'd be more big old trees. There'd be a better chance.

Yeah. But it's going to get harder. So welcome where you are, when you are, right now. Because based on what we know, we know what to do. Imagine if we didn't know.

Yeah. But it's going to get harder. So welcome where you are, when you are, right now. Because based on what we know, we know what to do. Imagine if we didn't know.

About this time next year, a new class of little submersibles, HONU, H-O-N-U, which is Polynesian for turtle, the land-sea connection, linked to the Brando Resort in French Polynesia.

About this time next year, a new class of little submersibles, HONU, H-O-N-U, which is Polynesian for turtle, the land-sea connection, linked to the Brando Resort in French Polynesia.

So you have responsible, environmentally conscious people I think of tourism as education when it's done well, linked to a research station in Tetioroa that is funded by the Brando and private contributions. And now they're behind getting two little thousand meter submersibles that can service individuals who want to come.

So you have responsible, environmentally conscious people I think of tourism as education when it's done well, linked to a research station in Tetioroa that is funded by the Brando and private contributions. And now they're behind getting two little thousand meter submersibles that can service individuals who want to come.

and really experience what it's like in the twilight zone, and for scientists, and for kids, and just to be a window into the deep sea is now on the crosshairs of exploitation, the deep zone where a layer of life migrates vertically. You know, just packed with little squids and luminous creatures that William Beebe described using the bathysphere going back to the 1930s.

and really experience what it's like in the twilight zone, and for scientists, and for kids, and just to be a window into the deep sea is now on the crosshairs of exploitation, the deep zone where a layer of life migrates vertically. You know, just packed with little squids and luminous creatures that William Beebe described using the bathysphere going back to the 1930s.

That now, for the first time, they're able to be exploited to gather all those little fish and luminous creatures together. To grind up and feed to salmon, to feed to cows and pigs and chickens, just take this. I know, it's just like, oh, wait, no, stop. It's what they're doing with krill in Antarctica and what they're doing with squid around the world, just grinding them up.

That now, for the first time, they're able to be exploited to gather all those little fish and luminous creatures together. To grind up and feed to salmon, to feed to cows and pigs and chickens, just take this. I know, it's just like, oh, wait, no, stop. It's what they're doing with krill in Antarctica and what they're doing with squid around the world, just grinding them up.

It's like taking songbirds and feeding them to the pigs. Like, wait, stop. Don't you know what you're doing? To get people down there. Of course, as a nerdy scientist, I just want to know who's living there. That would be my trajectory if it weren't the sense of urgency about getting others to see for themselves why we need to look at the world, look at the ocean with new eyes, look at ourselves.

It's like taking songbirds and feeding them to the pigs. Like, wait, stop. Don't you know what you're doing? To get people down there. Of course, as a nerdy scientist, I just want to know who's living there. That would be my trajectory if it weren't the sense of urgency about getting others to see for themselves why we need to look at the world, look at the ocean with new eyes, look at ourselves.

with new eyes, and treat one another with greater dignity and respect. We need to make peace with nature, but we need to make peace with ourselves, too.

with new eyes, and treat one another with greater dignity and respect. We need to make peace with nature, but we need to make peace with ourselves, too.

Well, thank you. I hope everyone over the next few years will be following the voyage of the Hokulea, a sailing canoe that Polynesians have the same structure, sailing across the Pacific with a message of hope, of making peace with the ocean, looking at the issues like deep sea mining and say, why would anybody even think about

Well, thank you. I hope everyone over the next few years will be following the voyage of the Hokulea, a sailing canoe that Polynesians have the same structure, sailing across the Pacific with a message of hope, of making peace with the ocean, looking at the issues like deep sea mining and say, why would anybody even think about