Sylvia A. Earle

We would know far less.

Right.

And we're just getting off the ground in the other direction in the 21st century.

Solving the problems of exploring the ocean and trying to document what's there and then move action to take care of it.

Right now, while we're sitting here, tons of ocean wildlife are being extracted from the ocean on a scale that...

until the middle of the 20th century and since, has never been possible before.

Technology cuts both ways.

We have the benefits of technology for communication, for all the health issues.

advantages that we enjoy.

But think of how we use technology to destroy.

I mean, think about war.

Think of guns that have never been invented, for example.

Or if we'd never taken the technology to turn against ourselves.

I don't know of another species that so aggressively goes after their own kind.

I mean, really to try to exterminate

other humans.

The idea that we use the most powerful

technology ever developed to wage war.

We need to wage peace.

We need to take that knowledge, and we do, to go high in the sky, to go deep in the ocean, and to communicate as widely as possible what we now know and use it so that we can secure an enduring place for ourselves.