Sylvia A. Earle

Now we're eight times that number.

We still have half the life that was in the sea when I was a child.

It's still there, but we've lost a half.

Wow.

And we're on a trajectory now to keep going in that direction.

So the idea of inspiring people to make commitments, to take whatever place that they care about.

It can be a small place like Fish Rock in Western Australia.

And it can be really large like the Sargasso Sea, which occupies a fair chunk of the high seas beyond the jurisdiction of countries.

But whatever it is, if you get people to care and take action, knowing leads to caring, leads to doing something.

Hope spots are places that started out logical places.

Who would not wish to save the Galapagos Islands, the waters around the Galapagos Islands, the waters around Antarctica, that special continent that people came together at the height of the Cold War?

Nations agreed together.

to protect it, to keep it safe.

We need to do that all over the world to have safe places, a network of hope leading to action so that we can have 1,000, 10,000, whatever it takes.

The high seas, that's half of the world.

Beyond national jurisdiction, that's the global commons.

Why wouldn't we wish to protect the blue heart of the planet?

It keeps us alive.

We need to keep the ocean alive.

It's another part of the 21st century.