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| We asked Sir David Attenborough and four other leading thinkers on ocean conservation how they would invest $1bn to protect the ocean. Some of their answers may surprise you. Film supported by @Blancpain https://www.woi.economist.com/ Click here to subscribe to The Economist on YouTube: https://econ.st/2xvTKdy For more from Economist Films visit: http://films.economist.com/ Check out The Economist’s full video catalogue: http://econ.st/20IehQk Like The Economist on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheEconomist/ Follow The Economist on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theeconomist Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theeconomist/ Follow us on Medium: https://medium.com/@the_economist |
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Inderjeet Singh
2020-06-13 at 13:41 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
To
.the economist
.India , why Police F.I.R REGISTERED AGAINST NEWS REPORTER VINOD DUA
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Felipe Guaragna Schorn
2020-06-13 at 23:16 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
just one?
394pjo
2020-06-14 at 17:24 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Old white men telling us how to live. Thats when I reach for my revolver.
Mikhail Angel
2020-06-14 at 23:00 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
no fishing zone, go to the Somalia’s coastal sea pirates zone
Hyper Eric
2020-06-15 at 04:31 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
A billion dollar to save the ocean is a great deal
Hugo Van Hees
2020-06-16 at 12:07 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Seems like we need 4 billion
var14s
2020-06-16 at 12:42 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
WHY NO ONE ASK HIM TO TELL THE GLOBALISTS BILIONERS TO STOP BULSHITING WITH THEIR HOAXE ' AND STOP PULUTING THE EARTH WITH THEIR INDESTRY? OCEANS NEED TO BE KEPT TOO 'BUR TJEY PLUT THE OCEANS AND TELING LIES /DESTROING THE WETHER AND THE HELTH OF HUMANS AND ANIMELS.
ALL IS THE OPOSITE !
NOW WE ALL CAN SE WHAT THEY DID TO US AND TO THE PLANET WHICH THEY DO NOT CARE ABOUT.
şahabettin konsuz
2020-06-18 at 05:57 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
dude first guy got the statistics go and try no fishing zones in every sea in the world and use math cmon
Aadesh Kapadne
2020-06-18 at 07:25 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Who is she.? at 11:49
dennis labbe
2020-06-20 at 14:35 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Until we eliminate wealth world wide we will never succeed to combat the climate crisis. Wealth and greed is the evil personality of mankind.
Robyn Mcsharry
2020-06-21 at 17:42 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Bolivia's lithium deserts>Undersea lithium mining?
ursa major
2020-06-23 at 19:57 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Public awareness (thus education) must be the priority. Not only individuals but also communities live selfishly without ever having any idea about the world around them…
R
2020-06-26 at 15:23 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
'Every second breath of oxygen you take comes from the ocean'. I'm sure our Billionaire friends wouldn't mind chipping in to this initiative considering they've just made an extra $584 Billion over the last 3 months since the pandemic started…
eggizgud
2020-06-30 at 14:18 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
I'd put some of that money into public awareness raising for sure, by building giant plasma screens in high-pedestrian-traffic places, or where there are long traffic queues, to show the captured audience the many gorgeous and wondrous shots of nature from documentaries. The larger-than-life images in glorious technicolour are meant to humble the audience into realising how huge the world is and how small we humans are in the scheme of things, yet our impact on earth is disproportionately huge and destructive.
David Ranalli
2020-07-01 at 17:10 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Here's what bothers me about modern science: the idea that we need consensus or that we don't have enough information is not the way that you persuade people to do things. It certainly won't persuade someone who is claiming ignorance specifically because they don't want to get caught acting as pirates in the oceans. What they need is an incentive to restore the oceans, not more data. Though yes, the data is always helpful. But we cannot conflate the two. The political and economic elements are how we get people to take action, and that doesn't stem from education from ocean data. It stems from strategies to leave the ocean alone long enough for it to restore.
Yagyaansh Khaneja
2020-07-04 at 18:47 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
I liked only the child's answer! All others were trash coz they lacked the force of "action"
Sophie
2020-07-17 at 23:49 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
I think some of that billion dollars should go to the poor fishing families. They do not want to overfish but in a lot of cases that is their only source of income. So if you put in laws that tell them that they cannot fish in their area in which they live and have armed guards ensuring that no one fish in those areas then how will these families eat?
yeah
2020-07-18 at 05:26 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Please look out for the South China sea,China is dumping millions of tons of Plastic wate and debris from its industries on a daily basis,ultimately resulting in altering the eco system by putting these plastics into the entire marine life cycle and then eventually making that plastics go inside us and then producing the deadly diseases inside our body…..
KaspaYT
2020-07-18 at 12:26 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
$1bn.. Heh… Even Swaziland has that much in their economy, let alone UK, US, etc. World leaders are lazy ngl
jen
2020-07-25 at 17:06 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
If you think you can stop China's devastation in the oceans, particularly the aghulhas and benguella currents running up either side of the South African coastline, with a billion dollars you are not up to the job.
Over 60% of all sea life depends on those currents and the South African ANC government is basically on the CCP payroll.