How to Protect The Oceans

TED Talk: How to Protect The Oceans

by Sylvia Earle

"Health of the ocean means health for us."

50 years ago, nobody, not even scientists believed that what we put into and what humans take out of the ocean could do anything to harm the ocean. It was considered indestructible. 

Since that time, humans have taken and eaten 90% of the big ocean fish. Over half of the world's coral reef is gone. And many parts of the ocean are experiencing what scientists are calling "ocean acidification." 

Will we look back in a couple generations and wonder if we could have done something to save the sharks, blue fin tuna, and the coral reefs? Slyvia Earle, in her award-winning TED Talk, ponders these questions and illuminates the destruction of Earth's "life support system," the oceans. In order to survive, all things must care for their life support system. 

First we must recognize that we have a problem...