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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.00,0:00:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fifty years ago, when I began exploring the ocean,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.00,0:00:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no one -- not Jacques Perrin, not Jacques Cousteau or Rachel Carson --
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.00,0:00:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,imagined that we could do anything to harm the ocean
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.00,0:00:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by what we put into it or by what we took out of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.00,0:00:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It seemed, at that time, to be a sea of Eden,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.00,0:00:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but now we know, and now we are facing paradise lost.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.00,0:00:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to share with you
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.00,0:00:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my personal view of changes in the sea that affect all of us,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.00,0:00:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to consider why it matters that in 50 years, we've lost --
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.00,0:00:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,actually, we've taken, we've eaten --
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.00,0:00:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more than 90 percent of the big fish in the sea;
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.00,0:00:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why you should care that nearly half of the coral reefs have disappeared;
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.00,0:00:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why a mysterious depletion of oxygen in large areas of the Pacific
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.00,0:00:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,should concern not only the creatures that are dying,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.00,0:00:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it really should concern you.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.00,0:00:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It does concern you, as well.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.00,0:01:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm haunted by the thought of what Ray Anderson calls "tomorrow's child,"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.00,0:01:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,asking why we didn't do something on our watch
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.00,0:01:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to save sharks and bluefin tuna and squids and coral reefs and the living ocean
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.00,0:01:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while there still was time.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.00,0:01:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, now is that time.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.00,0:01:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hope for your help
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.00,0:01:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to explore and protect the wild ocean
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.00,0:01:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in ways that will restore the health and,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.00,0:01:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in so doing, secure hope for humankind.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.00,0:01:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Health to the ocean means health for us.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.00,0:01:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I hope Jill Tarter's wish to engage Earthlings includes dolphins and whales
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.00,0:01:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and other sea creatures
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.00,0:01:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this quest to find intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.00,0:01:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I hope, Jill, that someday
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.00,0:01:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we will find evidence that there is intelligent life among humans on this planet.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.00,0:01:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.00,0:02:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Did I say that? I guess I did.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.00,0:02:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For me, as a scientist,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.00,0:02:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it all began in 1953
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.00,0:02:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I first tried scuba.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.00,0:02:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's when I first got to know fish swimming
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.00,0:02:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in something other than lemon slices and butter.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.00,0:02:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I actually love diving at night;
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.00,0:02:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you see a lot of fish then that you don't see in the daytime.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.00,0:02:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Diving day and night was really easy for me in 1970,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.00,0:02:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I led a team of aquanauts living underwater for weeks at a time --
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.00,0:02:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the same time that astronauts were putting their footprints on the moon.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.00,0:02:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1979 I had a chance to put my footprints on the ocean floor
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.00,0:02:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while using this personal submersible called Jim.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.00,0:02:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was six miles offshore and 1,250 feet down.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.00,0:02:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's one of my favorite bathing suits.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.00,0:02:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Since then, I've used about 30 kinds of submarines
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.00,0:03:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I've started three companies and a nonprofit foundation called Deep Search
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.00,0:03:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to design and build systems
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.00,0:03:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to access the deep sea.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.00,0:03:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I led a five-year National Geographic expedition,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.00,0:03:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Sustainable Seas expeditions,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.00,0:03:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,using these little subs.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.00,0:03:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're so simple to drive that even a scientist can do it.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.00,0:03:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'm living proof.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.00,0:03:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Astronauts and aquanauts alike
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.00,0:03:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really appreciate the importance of air, food, water, temperature --
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.00,0:03:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all the things you need to stay alive in space or under the sea.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.00,0:03:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I heard astronaut Joe Allen explain
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.00,0:03:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how he had to learn everything he could about his life support system
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.00,0:03:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then do everything he could
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.00,0:03:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to take care of his life support system;
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.00,0:03:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then he pointed to this and he said, "Life support system."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.00,0:03:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to learn everything we can about it
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.00,0:03:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and do everything we can to take care of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.00,0:03:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The poet Auden said, "Thousands have lived without love;
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.00,0:04:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,none without water."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.00,0:04:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ninety-seven percent of Earth's water is ocean.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.00,0:04:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No blue, no green.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.00,0:04:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you think the ocean isn't important,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.00,0:04:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,imagine Earth without it.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.00,0:04:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mars comes to mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.00,0:04:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No ocean, no life support system.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.00,0:04:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I gave a talk not so long ago at the World Bank
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.00,0:04:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I showed this amazing image of Earth
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.00,0:04:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I said, "There it is! The World Bank!"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.00,0:04:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's where all the assets are!
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.00,0:04:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we've been trawling them down
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.00,0:04:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,much faster than the natural systems can replenish them.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.00,0:04:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tim Worth says the economy is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the environment.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.00,0:04:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With every drop of water you drink,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.00,0:04:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every breath you take,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.00,0:04:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're connected to the sea.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.00,0:04:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No matter where on Earth you live.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.00,0:04:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.00,0:04:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over time, most of the planet's organic carbon
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.00,0:04:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has been absorbed and stored there,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.00,0:05:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mostly by microbes.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.00,0:05:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The ocean drives climate and weather,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.00,0:05:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stabilizes temperature, shapes Earth's chemistry.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.00,0:05:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Water from the sea forms clouds
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.00,0:05:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that return to the land and the seas
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.00,0:05:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as rain, sleet and snow,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.00,0:05:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and provides home for about 97 percent of life in the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.00,0:05:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe in the universe.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.00,0:05:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No water, no life;
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.00,0:05:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no blue, no green.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.00,0:05:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yet we have this idea, we humans,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.00,0:05:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the Earth -- all of it: the oceans, the skies --
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.00,0:05:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are so vast and so resilient
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.00,0:05:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it doesn't matter what we do to it.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.00,0:05:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That may have been true 10,000 years ago,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.00,0:05:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and maybe even 1,000 years ago
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.00,0:05:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but in the last 100, especially in the last 50,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.00,0:05:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we've drawn down the assets,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.00,0:05:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the air, the water, the wildlife
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.00,0:05:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that make our lives possible.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.00,0:05:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,New technologies are helping us to understand
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.00,0:05:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the nature of nature;
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.00,0:05:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the nature of what's happening,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.00,0:05:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,showing us our impact on the Earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.00,0:06:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, first you have to know that you've got a problem.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:02.00,0:06:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And fortunately, in our time,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.00,0:06:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we've learned more about the problems than in all preceding history.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.00,0:06:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And with knowing comes caring.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.00,0:06:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And with caring, there's hope
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.00,0:06:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we can find an enduring place for ourselves
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.00,0:06:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,within the natural systems that support us.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:19.00,0:06:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But first we have to know.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.00,0:06:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Three years ago, I met John Hanke,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.00,0:06:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who's the head of Google Earth,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.00,0:06:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I told him how much I loved being able to hold the world in my hands
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.00,0:06:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and go exploring vicariously.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.00,0:06:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I asked him: "When are you going to finish it?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.00,0:06:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You did a great job with the land, the dirt.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.00,0:06:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What about the water?"
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.00,0:06:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Since then, I've had the great pleasure of working with the Googlers,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.00,0:06:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with DOER Marine, with National Geographic,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.00,0:06:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with dozens of the best institutions and scientists around the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.00,0:06:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ones that we could enlist,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.00,0:06:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to put the ocean in Google Earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.00,0:07:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as of just this week, last Monday,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.00,0:07:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Google Earth is now whole.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.00,0:07:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Consider this: Starting right here at the convention center,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.00,0:07:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we can find the nearby aquarium,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.00,0:07:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we can look at where we're sitting,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.00,0:07:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then we can cruise up the coast to the big aquarium, the ocean,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.00,0:07:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and California's four national marine sanctuaries,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.00,0:07:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the new network of state marine reserves
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.00,0:07:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are beginning to protect and restore some of the assets
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.00,0:07:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can flit over to Hawaii
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.00,0:07:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and see the real Hawaiian Islands:
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.00,0:07:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not just the little bit that pokes through the surface,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.00,0:07:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but also what's below.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.00,0:07:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To see -- wait a minute, we can go kshhplash! --
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.00,0:07:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,right there, ha --
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.00,0:07:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,under the ocean, see what the whales see.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:45.00,0:07:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can go explore the other side of the Hawaiian Islands.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.00,0:07:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can go actually and swim around on Google Earth
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.00,0:07:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and visit with humpback whales.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.00,0:08:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are the gentle giants that I've had the pleasure of meeting face to face
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.00,0:08:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,many times underwater.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.00,0:08:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's nothing quite like being personally inspected by a whale.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.00,0:08:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can pick up and fly to the deepest place:
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.00,0:08:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seven miles down, the Mariana Trench,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.00,0:08:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where only two people have ever been.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.00,0:08:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Imagine that. It's only seven miles,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.00,0:08:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but only two people have been there, 49 years ago.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.00,0:08:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One-way trips are easy.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:27.00,0:08:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need new deep-diving submarines.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:30.00,0:08:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How about some X Prizes for ocean exploration?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:33.00,0:08:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to see deep trenches, the undersea mountains,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.00,0:08:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and understand life in the deep sea.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.00,0:08:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can now go to the Arctic.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.00,0:08:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just ten years ago I stood on the ice at the North Pole.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:47.00,0:08:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An ice-free Arctic Ocean may happen in this century.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:52.00,0:08:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's bad news for the polar bears.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.00,0:08:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's bad news for us too.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:59.00,0:09:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Excess carbon dioxide is not only driving global warming,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.00,0:09:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's also changing ocean chemistry,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.00,0:09:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,making the sea more acidic.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.00,0:09:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's bad news for coral reefs and oxygen-producing plankton.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:11.00,0:09:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Also it's bad news for us.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:14.00,0:09:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're putting hundreds of millions of tons of plastic
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.00,0:09:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and other trash into the sea.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:19.00,0:09:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Millions of tons of discarded fishing nets,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:22.00,0:09:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gear that continues to kill.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:25.00,0:09:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're clogging the ocean, poisoning the planet's circulatory system,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:29.00,0:09:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we're taking out hundreds of millions of tons of wildlife,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:32.00,0:09:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all carbon-based units.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:37.00,0:09:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Barbarically, we're killing sharks for shark fin soup,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:42.00,0:09:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,undermining food chains that shape planetary chemistry
Dialogue: 0,0:09:45.00,0:09:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and drive the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.00,0:09:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the oxygen cycle, the water cycle --
Dialogue: 0,0:09:51.00,0:09:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our life support system.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.00,0:09:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're still killing bluefin tuna; truly endangered
Dialogue: 0,0:09:58.00,0:10:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and much more valuable alive than dead.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:02.00,0:10:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of these parts are part of our life support system.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:07.00,0:10:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We kill using long lines, with baited hooks every few feet
Dialogue: 0,0:10:13.00,0:10:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that may stretch for 50 miles or more.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:15.00,0:10:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Industrial trawlers and draggers are scraping the sea floor
Dialogue: 0,0:10:19.00,0:10:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like bulldozers, taking everything in their path.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.00,0:10:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Using Google Earth you can witness trawlers --
Dialogue: 0,0:10:25.00,0:10:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in China, the North Sea, the Gulf of Mexico --
Dialogue: 0,0:10:29.00,0:10:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shaking the foundation of our life support system,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:33.00,0:10:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,leaving plumes of death in their path.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.00,0:10:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The next time you dine on sushi -- or sashimi,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:38.00,0:10:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or swordfish steak, or shrimp cocktail,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:40.00,0:10:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whatever wildlife you happen to enjoy from the ocean --
Dialogue: 0,0:10:43.00,0:10:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,think of the real cost.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:46.00,0:10:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For every pound that goes to market,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:48.00,0:10:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more than 10 pounds, even 100 pounds,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:52.00,0:10:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,may be thrown away as bycatch.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:56.00,0:10:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the consequence of not knowing
Dialogue: 0,0:10:59.00,0:11:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that there are limits to what we can take out of the sea.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.00,0:11:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This chart shows the decline in ocean wildlife
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.00,0:11:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from 1900 to 2000.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:09.00,0:11:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The highest concentrations are in red.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.00,0:11:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In my lifetime, imagine,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:14.00,0:11:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,90 percent of the big fish have been killed.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:18.00,0:11:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most of the turtles, sharks, tunas and whales
Dialogue: 0,0:11:20.00,0:11:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are way down in numbers.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:24.00,0:11:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, there is good news.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:26.00,0:11:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ten percent of the big fish still remain.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:28.00,0:11:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are still some blue whales.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.00,0:11:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are still some krill in Antarctica.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:33.00,0:11:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:35.00,0:11:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:38.00,0:11:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:41.00,0:11:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's still time, but not a lot,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:44.00,0:11:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to turn things around.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:46.00,0:11:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But business as usual means that in 50 years,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:48.00,0:11:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there may be no coral reefs --
Dialogue: 0,0:11:51.00,0:11:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and no commercial fishing, because the fish will simply be gone.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:55.00,0:11:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Imagine the ocean without fish.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:59.00,0:12:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Imagine what that means to our life support system.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:03.00,0:12:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Natural systems on the land are in big trouble too,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:06.00,0:12:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the problems are more obvious,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:08.00,0:12:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and some actions are being taken to protect trees, watersheds and wildlife.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:14.00,0:12:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in 1872, with Yellowstone National Park,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:18.00,0:12:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the United States began establishing a system of parks
Dialogue: 0,0:12:21.00,0:12:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that some say was the best idea America ever had.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:26.00,0:12:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,About 12 percent of the land around the world is now protected:
Dialogue: 0,0:12:30.00,0:12:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,safeguarding biodiversity, providing a carbon sink,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:34.00,0:12:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,generating oxygen, protecting watersheds.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:36.00,0:12:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, in 1972, this nation began to establish a counterpart in the sea,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:41.00,0:12:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,National Marine Sanctuaries.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:43.00,0:12:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's another great idea.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:45.00,0:12:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The good news is
Dialogue: 0,0:12:47.00,0:12:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that there are now more than 4,000 places in the sea, around the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:51.00,0:12:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that have some kind of protection.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:53.00,0:12:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you can find them on Google Earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:55.00,0:12:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The bad news is
Dialogue: 0,0:12:57.00,0:12:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you have to look hard to find them.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:59.00,0:13:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the last three years, for example,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:01.00,0:13:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the U.S. protected 340,000 square miles of ocean as national monuments.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:07.00,0:13:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it only increased from 0.6 of one percent
Dialogue: 0,0:13:10.00,0:13:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to 0.8 of one percent of the ocean protected, globally.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:15.00,0:13:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Protected areas do rebound,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:18.00,0:13:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it takes a long time to restore
Dialogue: 0,0:13:20.00,0:13:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,50-year-old rockfish or monkfish, sharks or sea bass,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:24.00,0:13:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or 200-year-old orange roughy.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:26.00,0:13:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't consume 200-year-old cows or chickens.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:30.00,0:13:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Protected areas provide hope
Dialogue: 0,0:13:33.00,0:13:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the creatures of Ed Wilson's dream
Dialogue: 0,0:13:36.00,0:13:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of an encyclopedia of life, or the census of marine life,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:40.00,0:13:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will live not just as a list,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:44.00,0:13:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a photograph, or a paragraph.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:48.00,0:13:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With scientists around the world, I've been looking at the 99 percent of the ocean
Dialogue: 0,0:13:51.00,0:13:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is open to fishing -- and mining, and drilling, and dumping, and whatever --
Dialogue: 0,0:13:55.00,0:13:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to search out hope spots,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:57.00,0:14:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and try to find ways to give them and us a secure future.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:01.00,0:14:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Such as the Arctic --
Dialogue: 0,0:14:03.00,0:14:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have one chance, right now, to get it right.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:06.00,0:14:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or the Antarctic, where the continent is protected,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:09.00,0:14:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the surrounding ocean is being stripped of its krill, whales and fish.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:15.00,0:14:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sargasso Sea's three million square miles of floating forest
Dialogue: 0,0:14:20.00,0:14:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is being gathered up to feed cows.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:23.00,0:14:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,97 percent of the land in the Galapagos Islands is protected,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:27.00,0:14:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the adjacent sea is being ravaged by fishing.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:31.00,0:14:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's true too in Argentina
Dialogue: 0,0:14:33.00,0:14:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the Patagonian shelf, which is now in serious trouble.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:36.00,0:14:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The high seas, where whales, tuna and dolphins travel --
Dialogue: 0,0:14:41.00,0:14:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the largest, least protected, ecosystem on Earth,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:44.00,0:14:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,filled with luminous creatures,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:47.00,0:14:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,living in dark waters that average two miles deep.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:50.00,0:14:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They flash, and sparkle, and glow
Dialogue: 0,0:14:53.00,0:14:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with their own living light.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:56.00,0:14:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are still places in the sea as pristine as I knew as a child.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:59.00,0:15:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The next 10 years may be the most important,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:03.00,0:15:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the next 10,000 years the best chance our species will have
Dialogue: 0,0:15:07.00,0:15:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to protect what remains of the natural systems that give us life.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:13.00,0:15:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To cope with climate change, we need new ways to generate power.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:16.00,0:15:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need new ways, better ways, to cope with poverty, wars and disease.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:22.00,0:15:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need many things to keep and maintain the world as a better place.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:26.00,0:15:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, nothing else will matter
Dialogue: 0,0:15:29.00,0:15:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we fail to protect the ocean.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:32.00,0:15:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our fate and the ocean's are one.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:36.00,0:15:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to do for the ocean what Al Gore did for the skies above.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:40.00,0:15:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A global plan of action
Dialogue: 0,0:15:43.00,0:15:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a world conservation union, the IUCN,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:45.00,0:15:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is underway to protect biodiversity,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:47.00,0:15:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to mitigate and recover from the impacts of climate change,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:51.00,0:15:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the high seas and in coastal areas,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:55.00,0:15:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wherever we can identify critical places.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:59.00,0:16:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,New technologies are needed to map, photograph and explore
Dialogue: 0,0:16:03.00,0:16:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the 95 percent of the ocean that we have yet to see.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:07.00,0:16:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The goal is to protect biodiversity,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:10.00,0:16:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to provide stability and resilience.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:12.00,0:16:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need deep-diving subs,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:14.00,0:16:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,new technologies to explore the ocean.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:17.00,0:16:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need, maybe, an expedition --
Dialogue: 0,0:16:20.00,0:16:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a TED at sea --
Dialogue: 0,0:16:22.00,0:16:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that could help figure out the next steps.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:25.00,0:16:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, I suppose you want to know what my wish is.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:29.00,0:16:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wish you would use all means at your disposal --
Dialogue: 0,0:16:34.00,0:16:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,films, expeditions, the web, new submarines --
Dialogue: 0,0:16:37.00,0:16:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and campaign to ignite public support
Dialogue: 0,0:16:40.00,0:16:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for a global network of marine protected areas --
Dialogue: 0,0:16:43.00,0:16:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hope spots large enough to save and restore the ocean,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:47.00,0:16:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the blue heart of the planet.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:50.00,0:16:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How much?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:52.00,0:16:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some say 10 percent, some say 30 percent.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:55.00,0:16:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You decide: how much of your heart do you want to protect?
Dialogue: 0,0:17:00.00,0:17:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whatever it is,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:02.00,0:17:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a fraction of one percent is not enough.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:06.00,0:17:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My wish is a big wish,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:08.00,0:17:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but if we can make it happen, it can truly change the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:12.00,0:17:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and help ensure the survival
Dialogue: 0,0:17:15.00,0:17:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of what actually -- as it turns out -- is my favorite species;
Dialogue: 0,0:17:21.00,0:17:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that would be us.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:23.00,0:17:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For the children of today,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:25.00,0:17:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for tomorrow's child:
Dialogue: 0,0:17:27.00,0:17:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as never again, now is the time.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:32.00,0:17:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:33.00,0:17:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)