Vincent Doumeizel

And they are essential to create food for the entire food chain in the ocean and beyond.

They are also essential to oxygen the ocean.

to move the oxygen in the ocean because they are the biggest migration on Earth.

They sink in the deep ocean at night and they come to the surface during the day to hunt.

So they contribute to a good mix, a healthy mix in the ocean.

But any plantain is vital.

And more importantly, they are vital to

to the biggest part of the planet because they are vital to climate, they are vital to the cycle of water, they are vital to oxygen creation, to nutrient and phosphate circulation and so forth.

So all the geochemical process rely on plankton actually.

You have said that plankton defines the temperature of the planet.

How can that be?

Well, yeah, exactly.

I mean, we know that the ocean absorbs 30% of our emissions, and most of it is due to plankton.

Because depending on the type of plankton you have in the ocean, they will sink in the ocean or they will stay at the surface.

I mean, typically, to make it very, very simple, the ecosystems over for the last 300 million years are characterized by some type of plankton that have a shell.

which has, by the way, created the rocks we know.

And the Dover's Cliff, for instance, they are all shells of dead plankton, actually, just like the chokes we use at school and so forth.

But we're not going to do that, not now.

But so when the dead plankton are the shells, they are sinking in the deep ocean.

So they are sequestering carbon doing that.