What if we Protected our Oceans and Saved the World? | Sylvia Earle | TEDxUniversityofRochester

Renowned biologist, explorer, and TED Prize recipient Dr. Sylvia Earle considers the vast majesty of Earth's unique oceans and their critical role in supplying the ingredients for all life. She discusses the devastation caused by humans to ocean biodiversity and talks about her efforts to protect the world's great bodies of water. Dr. Sylvia Earle is the founder of Mission Blue and DOER Marine Operations and has been a National Geographic Explorer in Residence since 1998. Dr. Earle was the first female chief scientist of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. She has earned a PhD from Duke University along with 32 honorary doctorates, and has served on numerous advisory boards including Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Mote Marine Lab, and Duke Marine Lab. Dr. Earle’s academic accomplishments include 230 publications and more than 150 honors.
Dr. Earle has over 7500 hours of diving experience, including the use of 30 submarines, and has contributed to over 195 publications including NGS Atlas of the Ocean, The World is Blue and Sea Change. She has won more than 100 national and international awards including the 2009 TED prize, the 2011 National Council for Science and the Environment Achievement Award, and Time Magazine’s First Hero for the Planet. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

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  • @sophianasiekukatampoi7824
    @sophianasiekukatampoi78245 жыл бұрын

    My favourite person! Dr Sylvia A Earle

  • @shannongeorge7520
    @shannongeorge75205 жыл бұрын

    👏👏👏🙏🙏🙏I was told many years ago from a lawyer that ‘What I was trying to do is noble,but unfortunately the only thing that will create change is through the pocketbook’😞THE EARTH HERSELF, NEEDS A GOOD LAWYER!! She’s a living entity that cannot speak except THROUGH ALL LIVING THINGS💪💪💪Blessed Love Soul Fam❤️🌍✌️

  • @Lennoex
    @Lennoex5 жыл бұрын

    Sylvia is such a nice and inspiring human being.

  • @sojournern
    @sojournern5 жыл бұрын

    Despite the cynicism, the arrogance, the selfish greed, we can't give up hope!

  • @aylbdrmadison1051

    @aylbdrmadison1051

    5 жыл бұрын

    We have no other choice but to not give up.

  • @chris-andrebrissett5208

    @chris-andrebrissett5208

    5 жыл бұрын

    Thats the energy we need

  • @francescos7361

    @francescos7361

    2 жыл бұрын

    Assolutamente meravigliosa persona meravigliosa e grande priorità assoluta alla nostra grande saggezza sempre e comunque. Grandi eroi ed esempi.

  • @aylbdrmadison1051
    @aylbdrmadison10515 жыл бұрын

    This fight started out long ago as just respecting our world. This is now a fight for our very survival. If you are one of those people who promotes destroying the only home we all have. Then I will fight you any way I can. Not just for my own survival, but also *for the survival of Your Own Family, who you obviously couldn't give a shet about.* :/

  • @tobsstone

    @tobsstone

    5 жыл бұрын

    Are you vegan then?

  • @xancient_truthx
    @xancient_truthx5 жыл бұрын

    If only if only... I wish I can meet people that ACTUALLY want to do something about our environment! We are destroying this beautiful planet with NO REMORSE.. It hurts me! If IT DIES,WE DIE FYI!

  • @ssiddarth

    @ssiddarth

    5 жыл бұрын

    If you do happen to meet someone who is ready to do something then do you have any ideas? Just curious

  • @nishattasnim9672

    @nishattasnim9672

    5 жыл бұрын

    So true we need people who actually do the job instead talk. Most of the people who do don't come to the limelight unless someone take it to the focus. These influencers business is to be in the limelight. I kinda respect their business for mental health but now it's high time we should have some people who really do..we need such leaders... terrified with the Amazon situation# save nature

  • @xancient_truthx

    @xancient_truthx

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@ssiddarth I'm willing to sit down with them and come up with some.

  • @xancient_truthx

    @xancient_truthx

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@nishattasnim9672 I'm just manifesting this energy to gravitate to me so WE can do something!

  • @Alyssa-kj9cy

    @Alyssa-kj9cy

    5 жыл бұрын

    I've been wanting to meet people that are willing to actually make a change. I try to convince my friends but it all comes back to there not being enough money. Where I live we don't have much problems with water pollution but I'd like to one day go to Mumbai with people and clean their beaches and stop the pollution from happening again. I'm only 15 soon going to college to study architecture and I hope to be able to get recycled plastic to make bricks for houses.

  • @ovr.lighting
    @ovr.lighting5 жыл бұрын

    Empathy with fish won’t save the ocean. I’m not sure if designating it as protected is enough. Holding people accountable for environmental harm just might help.

  • @Wheelygonzales

    @Wheelygonzales

    5 жыл бұрын

    No, it won't. The governent is resposible for the vast majoity of problems. They can just make up some BS laws that would make whatever they do completely legal.

  • @aylbdrmadison1051

    @aylbdrmadison1051

    5 жыл бұрын

    And that my friend is why the fight for freedom in an ongoing one.

  • @Nell-r0se

    @Nell-r0se

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@Wheelygonzales Then we do away with them. We're all going to die soon if we don't do anything.

  • @Wheelygonzales

    @Wheelygonzales

    5 жыл бұрын

    Oh! And governments generally put financial gain above everything else!

  • @Hosenanzugtasche

    @Hosenanzugtasche

    5 жыл бұрын

    Empathy with fish might make people care more than the constant incessant blaring by questionable groups asking for your wallet on every turn.

  • @californiaenglish3252
    @californiaenglish32525 жыл бұрын

    This speaker has an amazing resume. So many honorary doctorates.

  • @npc4322

    @npc4322

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yet zero common sense.

  • @aazifahzan
    @aazifahzan5 жыл бұрын

    Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will. - Suzy Kassem

  • @tanishapark6314
    @tanishapark63145 жыл бұрын

    Love love love this talk!!

  • @alexluv2ify
    @alexluv2ify5 жыл бұрын

    Sad that they are burning the amazonian forrest as I watch this :"(

  • @paula1005
    @paula10054 жыл бұрын

    “What if we treat the world, the ocean, as if our lives depend on it? Or: What if - we don't?”

  • @muchamucha2528
    @muchamucha25285 жыл бұрын

    Amazing.

  • @Misslele1123
    @Misslele11235 жыл бұрын

    So well said

  • @zoemadehome
    @zoemadehome5 жыл бұрын

    the audio man

  • @positivelypositive934
    @positivelypositive9345 жыл бұрын

    Great Talk!

  • @lucianacapilupe
    @lucianacapilupe5 жыл бұрын

    OMG! 👏👏

  • @sudhirmandal143

    @sudhirmandal143

    5 жыл бұрын

    Hello mam

  • @RyonRykal
    @RyonRykal5 жыл бұрын

    You really need to use more than one microphone, to prevent this bad audio! Use a local recording lavalier mic on every speaker, so that good audio can be used instead!

  • @paytondifranco2134
    @paytondifranco21345 жыл бұрын

    I’m from Rochester

  • @jamespn
    @jamespn5 жыл бұрын

    Saving the world starts with us, get a drink of water at home before you go out, then you don’t have to buy single use water in plastic bottles. I’d you must drink, get a reusable container and fill it with tap water.

  • @ANOLDMASTERJUKZ

    @ANOLDMASTERJUKZ

    5 жыл бұрын

    I dose not have to be tap water , put any thing in it , just don't forget to carry it every where you go outside of your home .

  • @sudhirmandal143
    @sudhirmandal1435 жыл бұрын

    Osmmmm😃😃😃😃

  • @ZennExile
    @ZennExile5 жыл бұрын

    Image if the Amazon wasn't burning, or Greenland's ice sheet wasn't floating on bath water, and any of this actually mattered.

  • @rizwanibrahim8253
    @rizwanibrahim82535 жыл бұрын

    Hi മലയാളീസ്.... 💞

  • @ITechcompulock
    @ITechcompulock5 жыл бұрын

    The main problem with the environment is Governments being paid by corporations to look the other way.

  • @arthurq7843

    @arthurq7843

    5 жыл бұрын

    And what exactly you gonna do with those corporations?

  • @ITechcompulock

    @ITechcompulock

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@arthurq7843 About all anyone can do is tell on them so that is exactly what I did.

  • @milesbrenton4259
    @milesbrenton42592 жыл бұрын

    Who’s here after watching Seaspiracy?

  • @fahmisa4790
    @fahmisa47905 жыл бұрын

    and thats for another topic of What If

  • @Larotian
    @Larotian5 жыл бұрын

    Why dont we... no body wants to change their ways? We can still take care of earth

  • @outlaw565
    @outlaw5652 жыл бұрын

    Caring people need to demand that our elected officials put regulations into place to stop industrial commercial fishing and industry that produce that equipment. Then we need to use our Coast Guard National Guard and whatever means necessary to enforce these laws and regulations. And people need to stop purchasing any kind of life that comes from the sea. Industries that harm life and ecosystems of the planet need to be eliminated.

  • @felipet.s910
    @felipet.s9105 жыл бұрын

    What if we here at Brazil impeached Bolsonaro ? Haha, just kidding... Unless?

  • @mechanicallydev4536

    @mechanicallydev4536

    5 жыл бұрын

    Good luck trying. Impeachment doesn't happen because people want to, it's a procedure that only happens if there are proofs of criminal activity during the mandate, as happened with Dilma Rousseff. ^.~

  • @felipet.s910

    @felipet.s910

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@mechanicallydev4536 I know dude. But his hands aren't clean neither

  • @mechanicallydev4536

    @mechanicallydev4536

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@felipet.s910 No one in politics has clean hands.

  • @Nell-r0se

    @Nell-r0se

    5 жыл бұрын

    Not fast enough

  • @tcdevable
    @tcdevable5 жыл бұрын

    She sounds like Martha Stuart

  • @saharadesert77
    @saharadesert775 жыл бұрын

    thats too much like right to do such a thing...

  • @marcoandreknottjung3418
    @marcoandreknottjung34185 жыл бұрын

    If humanity don't stop cutting the trees off and ruin the forests, then the rest will follow or fall low!

  • @sarzspse2648
    @sarzspse26482 жыл бұрын

    Novia platónica.

  • @mohammedmoussaoui8589
    @mohammedmoussaoui85895 жыл бұрын

    First

  • @RJinspire
    @RJinspire5 жыл бұрын

    Didn't make it to 1st comment this time, next time I would be first 😂! Good to video highlighting the environment that we are slowly destroying! My 45-days-old 'Inspirational Travel' channel is doing great with the melting glacier video hitting 8k views in the first two days, so exciting! Check it out

  • @youviewer8629
    @youviewer86295 жыл бұрын

    *Be a lot cooler if we did*

  • @hanhtrinhyeu7720

    @hanhtrinhyeu7720

    5 жыл бұрын

    H

  • @marlee7389
    @marlee73895 жыл бұрын

    Good and important video. Horrible audio!!! Why?

  • @mrowczykijek
    @mrowczykijek5 жыл бұрын

    Zbieram suby bez nienagrywania filmów. Wspomóż ten cel który święty jest

  • @amjedhussain7954
    @amjedhussain79545 жыл бұрын

    Don't worry will be fine, do as you wish just plant every where and go bike and no cars just buses. I wish no more cars and there a public buses beside a bike. Do this will be fine our planet the earth. Tomorrow we will be die, just live without technology of the cars or any tools and equipments used the gasoline

  • @britneel2008
    @britneel20085 жыл бұрын

    I wonder why that is still the only picture taken of earth. So bizarre they didn't take more than and that they haven't gone back... seems crazy

  • @Sora_Nai

    @Sora_Nai

    5 жыл бұрын

    There's more pictures than that one have you seen the higher quality ones those are satelite google maps satellite pictures. They do have more they have astronauts in the space station taking selfies with earth in the background.

  • @mechanicallydev4536

    @mechanicallydev4536

    5 жыл бұрын

    Google Earth literally uses billions of high definition sat pictures stitched together to represent the globe.

  • @britneel2008

    @britneel2008

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@mechanicallydev4536 a real picture, just one maybe from a cell phone

  • @aylbdrmadison1051

    @aylbdrmadison1051

    5 жыл бұрын

    The earth is a cube.

  • @tobsstone
    @tobsstone5 жыл бұрын

    Governments wont change this, we have to as consumers. Biggest impact we can have is to go vegan and minimalist, recycle and don't waste stuff.

  • @johnbox5013
    @johnbox50135 жыл бұрын

    This is cool. If we replaced the micronutrients for the plants it would bind the nitrogen and carbon dioxide by increasing the biomass.

  • @johnbox5013
    @johnbox50135 жыл бұрын

    By using electrolysis on the raw elements we can help the plants grow.

  • @chetthebee1322
    @chetthebee13225 жыл бұрын

    Meanwhile, she probably takes a least four cruises a year.

  • @sudhirmandal143

    @sudhirmandal143

    5 жыл бұрын

    Hello

  • @Ethan-tt5ix

    @Ethan-tt5ix

    5 жыл бұрын

    Chester Bee You just want to silence anyone who speaks the truth, because you’re afraid of a slight change to your convenient modern life.

  • @sudhirmandal143

    @sudhirmandal143

    5 жыл бұрын

    😀😀😀😀😀😀

  • @ClickingHeads

    @ClickingHeads

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@Ethan-tt5ix exactly. It's the everyday people who will get effected by these laws not the super rich.

  • @Wheelygonzales

    @Wheelygonzales

    5 жыл бұрын

    Research cruises. And with all the great work she does, she deserves it.

  • @kavijackson868
    @kavijackson8683 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, what if "we" did!? 🤳🏼🤣😂

  • @forgiveness_denied
    @forgiveness_denied5 жыл бұрын

    but turtles love snacking with stabucks straws

  • @HadleyCapeBreton
    @HadleyCapeBreton5 жыл бұрын

    we have not ever seen a real picture of earth that was not cgi

  • @felipet.s910

    @felipet.s910

    5 жыл бұрын

    Dude, there's literally satellite pictures out there

  • @queenofshred

    @queenofshred

    5 жыл бұрын

    Tell that to the people who have actually been into space and seen the Earth from that perspective with their own eyes. That's as real as it gets.

  • @josuagrub
    @josuagrub5 жыл бұрын

    we know nothing

  • @aylbdrmadison1051

    @aylbdrmadison1051

    5 жыл бұрын

    You just proved yourself wrong. You know at least three words from the English language, and you are close to being able to create an entire sentence. If you want to correct yourself, I would suggest something like: _We know next to nothing._ I would be inclined to agree with you then. In fact I would probably elaborate on the subject much more than most people would enjoy reading, lols.

  • @josuagrub

    @josuagrub

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@aylbdrmadison1051 Nobody actually knows anything, but I actually know this thing, so I know something

  • @rawstarmusic
    @rawstarmusic5 жыл бұрын

    Nah i thought it would be about cleaning the ocean and planting back fish as we take it out. Just respect phrases and blur dot talk.

  • @sophialurey5784
    @sophialurey57845 жыл бұрын

    Just go vegan

  • @karltherock8372

    @karltherock8372

    5 жыл бұрын

    not fr me, eat less is enough, eating 0 meat/fish isnt necassary

  • @Caterfree10

    @Caterfree10

    5 жыл бұрын

    White vegans shut up challenge

  • @theapemen5682
    @theapemen56825 жыл бұрын

    No1 cares about the trees lma0

  • @TyroneOne
    @TyroneOne5 жыл бұрын

    This hen should have said this 50 years ago

  • @sapelesteve
    @sapelesteve5 жыл бұрын

    Nice little lecture by Sylvia Earle. However, she left out the major problem that will eventually doom planet Earth, OVERPOPULATION! Unfortunately, there is no way to stop or even cut back on it's continued acceleration.....What IF??????????

  • @aylbdrmadison1051

    @aylbdrmadison1051

    5 жыл бұрын

    _" there is no way to stop or even cut back on it's continued acceleration"_ The guy who can't figure out that *having less children reduces the population,* seems to think he has the answer.

  • @queenofshred

    @queenofshred

    5 жыл бұрын

    I have recently been looking at trends in population growth because I used to think that population growth was the main problem that life on this planet faces. It looks as though the human global population will peak later this century and then start to decrease. This gives me hope that we can still do enough to halt the devastation to our ecosystems, as long as we act now and all bring about the changes that we already know are necessary to safeguard the future of life on this planet.

  • @Jh0nnycci
    @Jh0nnycci5 жыл бұрын

    Useless.

  • @mrmoonman384
    @mrmoonman3845 жыл бұрын

    Nah I’ll pass

  • @npc4322
    @npc43225 жыл бұрын

    What if ? ... you took this talk to China

  • @joseenoel8093
    @joseenoel80935 жыл бұрын

    She can speak for herself, the aboriginals knew from the get go not to harm and destroy Mother Earth. What you do to the earth you do to yourself. Funny it's a woman pointing out the obvious and most men stick their heads in the sand.

  • @scottamun5486
    @scottamun54865 жыл бұрын

    poor countries having too many kids rich have stopped having tons of kids.

  • @queenofshred

    @queenofshred

    5 жыл бұрын

    They, too, will eventually reach the point where population growth slows, stops and eventually reverses. It will happen naturally, as people have fewer children when they expect their children to live to adulthood.

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    @RedchevypuREVELATION5 жыл бұрын

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