What if we could save the fishing industry and protect the ocean at the same time? Marine ecologist Enric Sala shares his bold plan to safeguard the high seas — some of the last wild places on earth, which fall outside the jurisdiction of any single country — by creating a giant marine reserve that covers two-thirds of the world's ocean. By protecting the high seas, Sala believes we will restore the ecological, economic and social benefits of the ocean. "When we can align economic needs with conservation, miracles can happen," Sala says.
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That’s really cool
really cool, really possible- lets fight for our ocean by getting out of the pool for a minute
well that ship has sailed with Fukushima hello anybody out there
Christopher Liebler
The Pacific ocean is problematic, for sure. However the oceans don’t admix easily
The radiation is being highly diluted in the sea, not a major issue except locally.
The radiation from fukashima into the ocean is very small. People are stupid and don’t understand what the inverse square law is, except this is on an inverse cubic law, so after a mile away a banana would interfere with your ability to detect this.
I wish ❤️
Nemo appreciates.
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James cooper why do you spam?
So where ya from, James? No wait. Let me guess…
James cooper / OVERPOPULATION/ Free Birth Control around the world for all is the only solution for less starvation , pain and misery for all in our polluted world of 7.6 billion and growing at over 240,000 every day .
I´m pretty sure this is Callum Roberts’ idea, this is what he has been doing for years, going to small municipalities and countries and convincing them that this is the best way to fish and to make money
I didn’t catch it but did he say that increase in Marine life is directly correlated to lower CO2? He said that the ocean absorbs CO2 so we should help the fishes.
Yeah, it’s just the water, not the fish.
JustOneAsbesto is not only the water, producers from the food chain also help reduce CO2 levels
No more Great Whites. Black lives matter.
While it is great to aspire to such an ideal, it isn’t without its problems. It is easy for us to imagine accomplishing this easily, but what about unintended impacts on Third World peoples? The answer that the earth is overpopulated and they should die is ignorant and lazy. We in the first world are responsible for many of the current problems created and we need to deal with our own culpability in this, and correcting the problems we make, before we go to micromanage and ruin it for everybody else, again.
This disappoints because there is also the issue of lack of citations for his data, we need to know the reliabilty of the source. One other point is that this could create an onerous international high seas police force, not beholden to any country in particular but quite capable of controlling more than fishing activities, licit or not. This could have many other unintended consequences.
Such a profound idea…..#respect
Why don’t you put your money & effort behind buying some old trawlers to clean up the massive amounts of floating garbage. Then push for reforms requiring biodegradable nets & other marine equipment, as well as outlawing non-biodegrade plastic bottles & bags. Might actually do some good that way… instead of worthlessly farting your way through something that will NEVER happen.
We have to take what we can fucking get when it comes to preserving nature, most of the things you bitched about are things local governments have to do on their own, since its not likely a foreigner will have ANY significant say in their practices. We just have to educate them on these issues and hope they care enough to do something.
Optical Clarity “….that will never happen.” What does that mean? And btw can you be more elaborate than “REAL environmentalism”. 30 years is not sthg that matters.
Krishna Mohan First own up to your lie son… I distinctly did not say what you claimed. Have enough self respect to be honest for once. Then we can have a conversation. There is no point in talking with an unrepentant liar, since you will simply lie when the facts don’t fit your agenda. “30 years” none of your business liar.
Optical Clarity ok you did say that his plan won’t work. Right?
Krishna Mohan Own up to your lie… otherwise you aren’t worth talking to. And when you don’t, you prove my point. Last chance.
We are subsidizing the people who are destroying the planet? What will our children think of us? Why are so short sighted?
Capitalism.
mobilemarshall deep see fishing like he said is not extremely profitable. Its just survival. And if this continues its only going to get harder to make profits. Its not capitalism its foolishness.
mobilemarshall also the subsidies are government given. So it is democracy in a way rather than capitalism.
It doesn’t matter if it’s extremely profitable. People make money off of it. People pay for it. Do you think subsidies are somehow disconnected from the market or something?
mobilemarshall maybe you meant crony capitalism?
Awesome!
This should not only be a TED talk… 🙂 thanks for the hope!
one of the best ted present .thx profo
Excellent video.
This must be done.
The high seas must be protected.
Countries should never have been allowed to place into jeopardy these waters that our planet so depends on.
Ban all commercial fishing in the high seas now.
That is so awesome!!! Great Idea!
Greetings from Germany ☺
/Wilhelm