We Must Protect Our Ocean As If

There's A Vested Interest In Trying To Keep People Smoking Cigarettes.

Never Before Have We Known What We Know.

Since I Began Exploring The Ocean In The 1950s, 90 Percent Of The Big Fish Have Been Stripped Away. Tuna, Sharks, Swordfish, Cod, Halibut, You Name It, The Numbers Have Just Collapsed. Also, About Half Of The Coral Reefs Are Gone, Globally, From Where They Were Just A Few Decades Ago.

Throughout All Of Human History We've Enjoyed Certain Benign Circumstances: An Envelope Of Atmosphere, An Envelope Of Temperature. A Kind Of Resilience That If You Cut Down Trees, Then They'll Grow Back. You Take Fish, They Recover. You Put Stuff Into The Atmosphere That You Know Is Not Good For Us, But We Can Still Breathe. We Haven't Awakened, Generally, To The Sense Of Urgency That Does Exist.

Fish From All Over The World, From Deep In The Sea, Wind Up In Countries From Germany To Japan. That Is Just Crazy.