you see two things first of all and most important "its in black and white" and the second one was the funny one he says thats also showing it :D no disrespect aaah, no we will set up a leaf based series of various patterns on the back of all worlds beaches and start a series of pools to breed fish for all kinds of fish and we shall save the ocean this way, project start in two weeks. you may find us to contact me and ask info to contact others because some people think putting link here is spam
The topics being spoken about here are so much more terrifying than the topics that are being repetitively discussed in the presidential debates right now. It's so sad that we don't see these massive environmental problems coming our way. Our world is literally being destroyed. When you talk about something in politics and you say "that would destroy the world," that's probably a hyperbole. But this stuff? It IS destroying the world, and that's almost an understatement.
Are we so caught up in our conceptual world that has spawned from our minds that we have lost our care and appreciation for the REAL world? The ocean, the trees, LIFE. It's so frightening to think about. It really makes you think, gossip, celebrities, politics, blah blah blah..It's all so fucking useless...goddammit, the world is dying ;(
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Jesus christ, this is the most horrifying video I have ever seen in youtube. HELLO PEOPLE. We can fuck up the land all we want, but we share the air and the water, and going to Norway won't help because it's the same fucking water and the same fucking air.
People need to shut up about global warming, and start focusing on the very real pollution that is killing our seas RIGHT NOW.
Sustainable harvest wouldn't be as profitable, so it's not gonna happen. People r just after myopic gains, both in production & consumption. thus whole ecosystems r being permanently devastated. The inertia may already be impossible to stop, but those of us who care don't have to participate. Hope they get good at growing "meat" in the lab. Sounds gross, but progress has been made - just haven't gotten the texture right. That would be guilt-free carnivorism! I'll have the filet du petri, please.
I am very interested in the oceans and the problems which humans have created in them. My interest has inspired me to become a marine biologist (I’m in high school.) First off, he talks about over fishing. Being avid fishermen, I was not shocked by what I was told during the video. Professor Jackson says that over fishing is one of the main reasons our oceans are being destroyed. When a member of an important piece of the food chain dies off—small fish—the entire marine ecosystem goes haywire.
With no small fish eating the plankton, the plankton dies of old age which should never happen. Most of the over fishing is done by way of by-catch. Many fishermen go out on the weekend and drop around fifteen lines in the water, drink and then wait for the fish to bite. With or without knowing they reel in fish that they will not even eat or sell. The avg. catch size for big game fish has dropped dramatically from around 400-500 lbs to 80-200 lbs. We overfish by an avg. of 250-450% every year!
Bottom trawling is not only a form of over fishing, but a way in which we destroy many beautiful reefs and habitats because they tear up the bottom of the ocean. Jackson also talks about pollution. Although biological pollution occurs in the ocean we are the cause. When the plankton that have died sink to the benthic zone, other organisms either eat them or they actually rot. Another form of pollution is eutrophication. Many forms of algae are enshrouding reefs and estuaries.
Therefore the reefs receive no sunlight and turn white, resulting in another catastrophe, coral bleaching. Yes, we are polluting the oceans by introducing new species to foreign and native waters. There is a species of coral he talks about briefly which was introduced by an aquarium and has since spread across the region and destroyed one of the island’s most fruitful reefs. Climate change is the last topic.
Two currents such as the Humbult Current and the Gulf Stream affect the rising temperatures our Gulf’s oceans. There are many ways in which we can help solve or at least provide a minimal change. As a member of the group Oceana, I realize that even doing something as simple as sending an email to our Senators that I'm making a change.
People can try to set forth catch limits, not dispose of their waste such as plastic and other garbage in the sea, and just educate others by spreading the word about the destruction we are causing to our pristine ocean.
he never really addresses the solutions to any of the problems that are presented. This is probably because he knows that the main problem is enforcing these solutions such as seasonal fishing, catch limits, MPAs, gear restrictions etc...
Environmentalists declare the only way to reduce our harmful impact on the earth is to stop being selfish and caring about growth. I just can't hear a president campaign on "ending growth." And it seems to me like that kind of language is not helpful. It may rile up the base and get them passionate about saving the earth, but it turns everyone else off to be told they are the problem, the problem is apocalyptic, and the implication that the only way to solve it is to dismantle capitalism.
A more effective lobby would use the language of market corrections for externalities, making consumers pay for destruction of the commons, not letting them pass costs off to taxpayers. Now that talking point plays well with voters at large. Say stuff like, "the oceans are our legacy, and those bastards screwing it up for the rest of us need to pay us if they want to keep doing it." That inspires, outrages, sounds workable, and doesn't cause the public cognitive dissonance by blaming everyone.
Politics has not worked. Neither party. Don't even bother discussing it. What we need is some sort of miraculous spiritual evolution so we stop being greedy and foolish, and cooperate instead of making war to fatten the upper one percent of the super-wealthy.
Otherwise, there will simply be an 80% die-off in the human species. It's what nature finally does when enough gets to be enough. It's happened before, although received "history" refuses to recognize it.
It only takes a few minutes reading youtube comments to question why we should bother trying to save the oceans and humanity by proxy. Maybe after life reboots after we are gone they'll do things better.
@Megasroxlol 'Carbon' in this sense is an abbreviation of Carbon Dioxide, not just the element Carbon. Carbon Dioxide is a greenhouse gas, responsible for global temperature rises. Humans are not made from Carbon Dioxide. Even if we were... the average american weighs 86kgs... but releases 20 tons of CO2 per year. Your comment means fuck all.
I pretty much knew all of what he said before I watched this video. Too bad people won't listen to him even though they know he's right! Human greed is a very very powerful thing!
@jacobleb420 Wrong. We have begun to change. Many people I know have watched this and have begun to help make the world a better place. We can and we will.
they say, 90/5 % percent of the fix is knowing what ails us. Also know the universe works best when we's asleep. Time to let all our busyNess implode to doing as little as possible as much of the time we can get away with. He is right, it is us who need shift from productivity (and oft mindless busyNess to the art and act of being .
@numnunums Your right maybe I should be a Steve Irwin and fear nothing until it bites me in the ass. Nice try sounding like intelect. But you get an "F". After reading the statement you just made the military would be a nice career for you.
@JimmyGunXD556 . I stated that I was already in the military. You're not to good at this whole debate thing.
It's also spelled Intellect by the way and the proper use is intellectual not intelect. I guess they give any old retard an internet connection nowadays.
So the 70's movie Soylent Green now becomes oddly prophetic. Who can we thank for this? I can tell you - the baby boom generation. Which means my generation and those that follow, we can go pound sand. Shame on them.
the worlds problems have nothing to do with world leaders it has everything to do with modern societies... if you wanna go to the grocery store and buy food brought in buy nonrenewable means, golf 18 holes on our water wasting course, watch gas wasting nascar races, drive SUVs, drink our starbucks etc we are the source of the dilemmas. the leaders aren't the ones working in these nature killing blue collar jobs. we are because we worship money and place a monetary value on everything!
@whiteswamfromthesful Stopping sport fishing will not have an impact on this problem, because it is not at cause in the first place. Also, all people involved are schooled very differently and are all quite different; I think all leaders of the world do understand but that it simply is not very high up their agenda, since there are more pressing matters which need attending (like the financial crisis, and the threat of nuclear terrorism).
I agree that human overpopulation is a key part of the problem. However, it is only part of the problem. Coupled with that is the fact that many people act like spoiled rotten children. They want to be able to drive their gas-guzzling SUVs as fast as they want, eat whatever they want and not pay any attention to the consequences.
We are acting just like the people on Easter Island who cut down the trees so they could move giant carved heads around, not realizing they were killing themselves.
sport fishing has no effect at all (compared to the fishing industry)
i don't think that making sport fishing illigal would do anything other than uppset people. You say the government is to blame, but who is the government? the government is the people! How strong the government is, is the same as how much we as individuals cooporate with each other. And the reason why the governemt doesn't have the money is because we/the people have to vote for a stronger government.
sport fishing isn't the problem. it's the massive fishing industry. We need to stop buying fish that comes from the free ocean.
but however i don't think the majority of people understand this or care. what we need is a strong government which actually do something about the problem
its sorta funny when he talks about what we'll see in the oceans in 50 or so years.... when it gets to that point it's highly provable there won't be many of us left to see it. at the end he almost UNDER-states the importance of what he's saying, and of us getting rid of modern civilization
(the need to import resources, and living beyond what your land base can produce), agriculture (monoculture that destroys living systems and makes us live OUTSIDE the natural world), and such...
Evolution of mind has successfully brought us into our accelerated future, but unfortunately with eyes which see only objects and want, not time and consequence. It's not quite so 'peachy' after all to be at the top of the food chain any more, is it?
I'm from Mississippi where the most popular fish to eat are farm bred catfish. While obviously there are no quick fixes to this problem, it would go a long way if consumers would insist only buying farmed fish. When we start to look on ocean caught fish as essentially wild game, we can harness those market forces that have destroyed our oceans to revive them.
I think the whiteman is an alien, we have NEVER been able to live in harmony with nature, its like we popped out of nowhere and have been destroying everything ever since. its insane. Its like Avatar, but the Navi are non-whites ie naive people of countries that COULD live in harmony with nature.whereas whites destroy everything and mine precious minerals weird...lol
@VictorphoenixDMvault You are right. Next year we will make room for a vegetable in our yard. We already are loaded with fruit trees and berries. But...we consider ourselves to be lucky to do so, not everyone can grow their own food. Plus, how long would a vegetable garden feed a family of 5 anyways. I know the apples, plums, cherries, and berries only last through the summer and our trees are hugh.
(Not to detract from the worth of your comment, but I always find it humorous when an overlooked typo or omission puts an entirely new spin on things. Read once again the second line of your reply to VictorphoenixDMvault. I'm prone to committing semantic suicide myself sometimes, but considering a family of five, this was a good one.)
@CraigusMalaigus Humanity did not destroy the planet. Capitalism has destroyed the security of the future of humanity. People used to know how to live well on this planet. Some of us have forgotten. We need to remember.
This makes me think of all the books of adventure that I read, like Robinson Crusoe, the Swiss Family Robinson and Treasure Island. It was a time when the world was full of both plant and animal life. A world not burdened by overpopulation existed once. Earth is being turned into a desert and into a worldwide cemetery. That is the truth and no one does a damn.
The solution is simple: eat less fish. And for all those people asking what to eat my anwser is: eat chicken. It's cheap, tasty, easy to breed and chicken farms does not harm the environment. Whats funny is that in fish farms fish are actually fed with chicken (there was a ted talk about that).
thats messed up. people around 17min mark are sleeping... thats just so wrong. i know this guy may seem boring and we already know this but i meen the least you could do is open your eyes and stay awake. i meen how selfish could you be. this make me so sad. anyways. ya...
We are almost 7 milliards of peoples eating each days almost all of us eating 3 meals and snack a day.... some of us can't fine any food , i think soon if we are not taking care we will be also in the gang who dont eat.
@IH8WRONGPPL Sorry to burst your bubble, but point the finger at someone else isn't going to fix your problem. You really think the Asians collapsed the fisheries in the North Atlantic?
If this guy knew what he was talking about, he wouldn't compared an old photo of a catch of Goliath Groupers with a catch of recent snappers. Adult fish are much different in size, say, hundreds of pounds and Goliath Groupers are illegal to possess now. Biological pollutants are deadly , but more deadly than this oil spill in the Gulf ?????? Don't think so ! We'll lose all of our fisheries by 2048 ?? Perhaps if pollutants at the current rate persist, but not by overfishing. 5:13 to 5:45 lol !
We've wrecked the water, the air, the trees, the animals, the geography, any illusion of world peace, and the ice caps. We've become technologically reliant, narcotically dependent, politically indecisive, and distrustful of science.
We can't decide on gay marriage, and we can't decide on abortion. I think that's stupid. If there's one thing we need, it's homosexuality and abortion, because both of those do the one thing that can help humanity.
@McSnookerman By my logic, we should make contraceptives more widely available, and use them more often. By my logic, we should have less kids and teach them better, or don't have any of our own, but take into our care those kids who require it. We don't need murder or any other sort of aggressive euthenasia. We have nature to do that for us. Might as well let it be until we cure cancer, maybe after our population is under control.
@revesvans I love Norway and lived in Oslo for 7 years.... but it's not exactly the most enviromentally-friendly country in the world. All the oil Norway has sold to the world has created huge amounts of CO2 and they are one of the few world nations that still have an active whaling industry... so lets not pretend that it's all wonderful.
@GrudgyDiablo This always happens; I doubt the codec has difficulty with this, so i suspect it's being done on purpose, maybe related to copyright issues.
@HiAdrian Nevermind, just saw that some pictures are okay. I wonder how they could possibly fuck that up if they just uploaded the mp4's from their website...
So what the fuck am I supposed to eat now....I mean we just changed to fish because the meat industry is so inhumane and unhealthy.....This leaves me with carrots and peanuts and I am already tired of carrots and peanuts....sardines are the healthiest meat we can eat and have a comeback or regrowth rate far better than any other fish....I'm stick'n with the sardine, carrots and peanuts until I hear from the next genius that sardins, carrots and peanuts are actually bad for your health.
@DistinctiveBlend It is about me and you and the next person all the way up dumbass. enviromentalists are always talking about how we...the individual should and could make a difference....IT IS ABOUT ME.....in this house, we try to make a difference by recycling properly and consumtion conservation. so don't even try to SPIN my comment.
The video highlights the damage that has already been done and that it wont just fix itself, that things are now under attack from many different angles that we pretty much created.
Yet in you come complaining that your diet might have to change. I found that amusing as it's long past that point now and unfortunately too many people don't know and/or care. I'm not saying don't do it, I'm saying far more is needed now.
@DistinctiveBlend You still don"t get it....what has happened has happened....( you can cry about that all you want, it wont change anything) there is no way to go back and change our fishing habits or how we wrecklessly polluted the oceans...the point is we need to think more about our planet and it life cycle than, taking better care of the world we live in may ensure a longer more enjoyable stay for humans on this planet..AND that happens one person at a time
What we all need is for Cannabis to be put on a heck of a lot of farmland. Talking about so-called "industrial hemp" here, with such low content of THC that denying its industrial use underlines the ignorance and disregard for science of those denying it. The EU allows for growing of <0.3% strains, but alas! it's up to individual EU-countries whether to allow it on their farm-land or not. So nothing is really happening. God DAMN the ignorance and indifference of decision makers!
I was listening to this with another window in front of it, so I didn't see the video, and for the first minute or so I thought he was talking about a man named "Carl Reeves"
Looks like everyone should get involve, not just the government. Government usually higher intellects that debate the pros and cons, which should help the environment, but we all know the results. Planting a tree everyday should keep the doctor away. Only you can make a difference.
@marsCubed Government is part of the solution, but it's most of the problem too, so don't bash Libertarians. Libertarians are opposed to pollution and the big government corruption that facilitates it.
For decades, the highways and freeways in my state were always littered, sometimes dangerously so. Now capitalists pay to clean them at no taxpayer expense. The purpose of government is to manage things for us, not do it all for us.
Right 'Libertarians' have repeatedly pushed for corps to rape oceans to extinction & the selfishness of Ayn Rand, for the corporations to trash forests and wildlife reserves.
You have been duped by Beck and Fox hype
If a corp fixes a road it will hose out the homeless or cut down the trees which live along side for the very same reason. blind profit chasing.
Move left, right 'libertarian' is another word for fascist in Europe.
Here's something else that's true. The pro-big government Democrat Party controls the US government almost completely right now and major ecological reform has yet to show signs of materializing.
BTW, what makes you think I care for Glenn Beck or G.W. Bush?
Don't you know the difference between a Neo-Conservative and a Libertarian?
No wonder you're prejudiced. Are you sure you haven't been duped?
I don't think we'll ever learn. We're a disgusting and idiotic species who deserve what is coming to us. Man has consumed the earth and soon he will begin consuming himself.
Such an obvious and savage implicit condemnation of modern global capitalism (if not capitalism per se)...and yet, even alongside the global housing and securitization driven crises of the markets themselves, nothing puts the least dent in the 'markets macht frei' theology. No God but God, and Milton Friedman is his prophet.
Not even to mention the oil disaster ongoing in the gulf that, as a Floridian, brings a whole separate set of concerns.
@ToshiroDK You're definitely right, but you have to admit there is a segment of our capitalist society that bristles over the idea that anyone engaged in any business practice is inhibited in any way. Those for whom free-market capitalism is a religion, essentially. Also note that he called them capitalistic jerks, not just capitalists - I think he understands that not all capitalists are assholes.
The photographs he shows are frustrating because they take 30 seconds to resolve. I imagine it has to do with the video compression failing at the scene change. It's frustrating to hear him make points about imagines that I can't see.
I see his point about trawling. We should stop that junk right now.
How is N fertilizer subsidized?
Well that talk was... scathing. What a lovely watch to brighten my day.
It was hard to press the "Like" button on this video given the horrifying message. Citizens of Earth should be attending mass protests against governments that allow fishing corporations to decimate our oceans like this. Thank you TED for this video.
By 2100, at current rates of increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide, average ocean pH will drop 0.3 - 0.4 and be @ 7.8 with an increase in acidic H+ ion concentration of 150-200%.
That will cause a 50% DECREASE of ocean carbonate ions (CO3).
Carbonate ions are needed for growth by plankton & corals at the base of the ocean's food chain.
I'm 27. Things may get worse and worse in the future. But I'll still like to see where this is all going. Whether we'll find a solution to remedy the majority of the pressing problems or we'll go down the drain.
you see two things first of all and most important "its in black and white" and the second one was the funny one he says thats also showing it :D no disrespect aaah, no we will set up a leaf based series of various patterns on the back of all worlds beaches and start a series of pools to breed fish for all kinds of fish and we shall save the ocean this way, project start in two weeks. you may find us to contact me and ask info to contact others because some people think putting link here is spam
soldierofvanity 2 weeks ago
The topics being spoken about here are so much more terrifying than the topics that are being repetitively discussed in the presidential debates right now. It's so sad that we don't see these massive environmental problems coming our way. Our world is literally being destroyed. When you talk about something in politics and you say "that would destroy the world," that's probably a hyperbole. But this stuff? It IS destroying the world, and that's almost an understatement.
SMZZ2107 3 weeks ago in playlist Ocean of Mystery
Are we so caught up in our conceptual world that has spawned from our minds that we have lost our care and appreciation for the REAL world? The ocean, the trees, LIFE. It's so frightening to think about. It really makes you think, gossip, celebrities, politics, blah blah blah..It's all so fucking useless...goddammit, the world is dying ;(
SMZZ2107 3 weeks ago in playlist Ocean of Mystery
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I hatch! Crawl! And swim!
Oh how I love my sweet life,
But—why’s the sea so warm?
—A Green Sea Turtle
StephanieLisaTara 5 months ago
Start researching the information from Billy Meier with warnings about ALL of this environmental damage that he has been publishing since...1951.
Search both the theyfly and theyflyblog websites (climate change, global warming, earthquake, storm, tsunami, oil, BP, etc.)
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8Michael12 1 year ago
Jesus christ, this is the most horrifying video I have ever seen in youtube. HELLO PEOPLE. We can fuck up the land all we want, but we share the air and the water, and going to Norway won't help because it's the same fucking water and the same fucking air.
People need to shut up about global warming, and start focusing on the very real pollution that is killing our seas RIGHT NOW.
wobinidan 1 year ago 2
@wobinidan No shit. The destruction of evolution from the bottom up; quite an accomplishment. Humans are smart like that.
BillofRightsBrutus 1 month ago in playlist Ocean of Mystery
Sustainable harvest wouldn't be as profitable, so it's not gonna happen. People r just after myopic gains, both in production & consumption. thus whole ecosystems r being permanently devastated. The inertia may already be impossible to stop, but those of us who care don't have to participate. Hope they get good at growing "meat" in the lab. Sounds gross, but progress has been made - just haven't gotten the texture right. That would be guilt-free carnivorism! I'll have the filet du petri, please.
baronmorris 1 year ago
I am very interested in the oceans and the problems which humans have created in them. My interest has inspired me to become a marine biologist (I’m in high school.) First off, he talks about over fishing. Being avid fishermen, I was not shocked by what I was told during the video. Professor Jackson says that over fishing is one of the main reasons our oceans are being destroyed. When a member of an important piece of the food chain dies off—small fish—the entire marine ecosystem goes haywire.
swolediver11 1 year ago
With no small fish eating the plankton, the plankton dies of old age which should never happen. Most of the over fishing is done by way of by-catch. Many fishermen go out on the weekend and drop around fifteen lines in the water, drink and then wait for the fish to bite. With or without knowing they reel in fish that they will not even eat or sell. The avg. catch size for big game fish has dropped dramatically from around 400-500 lbs to 80-200 lbs. We overfish by an avg. of 250-450% every year!
swolediver11 1 year ago
Bottom trawling is not only a form of over fishing, but a way in which we destroy many beautiful reefs and habitats because they tear up the bottom of the ocean. Jackson also talks about pollution. Although biological pollution occurs in the ocean we are the cause. When the plankton that have died sink to the benthic zone, other organisms either eat them or they actually rot. Another form of pollution is eutrophication. Many forms of algae are enshrouding reefs and estuaries.
swolediver11 1 year ago
Therefore the reefs receive no sunlight and turn white, resulting in another catastrophe, coral bleaching. Yes, we are polluting the oceans by introducing new species to foreign and native waters. There is a species of coral he talks about briefly which was introduced by an aquarium and has since spread across the region and destroyed one of the island’s most fruitful reefs. Climate change is the last topic.
swolediver11 1 year ago
Two currents such as the Humbult Current and the Gulf Stream affect the rising temperatures our Gulf’s oceans. There are many ways in which we can help solve or at least provide a minimal change. As a member of the group Oceana, I realize that even doing something as simple as sending an email to our Senators that I'm making a change.
swolediver11 1 year ago
People can try to set forth catch limits, not dispose of their waste such as plastic and other garbage in the sea, and just educate others by spreading the word about the destruction we are causing to our pristine ocean.
swolediver11 1 year ago
Read mine from the bottom to the top so they are in order and it makes sense...
swolediver11 1 year ago
he never really addresses the solutions to any of the problems that are presented. This is probably because he knows that the main problem is enforcing these solutions such as seasonal fishing, catch limits, MPAs, gear restrictions etc...
swolediver11 1 year ago
16:51 half the people are sleeping hahahaha
vozza14 1 year ago
Environmentalists declare the only way to reduce our harmful impact on the earth is to stop being selfish and caring about growth. I just can't hear a president campaign on "ending growth." And it seems to me like that kind of language is not helpful. It may rile up the base and get them passionate about saving the earth, but it turns everyone else off to be told they are the problem, the problem is apocalyptic, and the implication that the only way to solve it is to dismantle capitalism.
darkmiles22 1 year ago 2
A more effective lobby would use the language of market corrections for externalities, making consumers pay for destruction of the commons, not letting them pass costs off to taxpayers. Now that talking point plays well with voters at large. Say stuff like, "the oceans are our legacy, and those bastards screwing it up for the rest of us need to pay us if they want to keep doing it." That inspires, outrages, sounds workable, and doesn't cause the public cognitive dissonance by blaming everyone.
darkmiles22 1 year ago 2
good topic... but the guy is sooo boring. still, cool guy. good job
nublex 1 year ago
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liberal4ever 1 year ago
This has to be one of the saddest and scariest videos I have ever seen.
The sea floor after trawling just made me want to cry and the size difference in what is being caught after only 60 years is terrifying.
SharonC61 1 year ago 2
Politics has not worked. Neither party. Don't even bother discussing it. What we need is some sort of miraculous spiritual evolution so we stop being greedy and foolish, and cooperate instead of making war to fatten the upper one percent of the super-wealthy.
Otherwise, there will simply be an 80% die-off in the human species. It's what nature finally does when enough gets to be enough. It's happened before, although received "history" refuses to recognize it.
It's inevitable.
cybervigilante 1 year ago
It only takes a few minutes reading youtube comments to question why we should bother trying to save the oceans and humanity by proxy. Maybe after life reboots after we are gone they'll do things better.
Xomage999 1 year ago 2
Man, if only this guy had made this presentation AFTER the recent oil spill...
Moirera 1 year ago
man ! back then Fish are HugE!
whomybuddy 1 year ago
What I think is so tragic is any species, land or sea, that becomes extinct. Something that was there, no longer is.
CoasterCloud 1 year ago
Giant netsack at 9:44
T8R 1 year ago 3
@whiteswamfromthesful I'm a marine and I think it's bad to destroy the world for short term gain. Use your head for once.
numnunums 1 year ago
@Megasroxlol sweet. So's the moon and it's pretty much dead.
numnunums 1 year ago
@Megasroxlol 'Carbon' in this sense is an abbreviation of Carbon Dioxide, not just the element Carbon. Carbon Dioxide is a greenhouse gas, responsible for global temperature rises. Humans are not made from Carbon Dioxide. Even if we were... the average american weighs 86kgs... but releases 20 tons of CO2 per year. Your comment means fuck all.
tommyboomboom 1 year ago
So it's not about pollution and death, but about lack of imagination! *pictures the Smurfs* My job here is done.
VCat2006 1 year ago
Mafia-influenced government, stop stealing my money for redundant fertilizer that produces too much low level food!
VCat2006 1 year ago
Damn.... I knew it was bad but this bad... I think I'm gonna cry for a while. :(
The worst thing is that profit still is the highest goal in the human mind and they are willing to sell there soul for it.
We should be ashamed of our selves...
Nick7563 1 year ago 3
I pretty much knew all of what he said before I watched this video. Too bad people won't listen to him even though they know he's right! Human greed is a very very powerful thing!
jacobleb420 1 year ago
@jacobleb420 Wrong. We have begun to change. Many people I know have watched this and have begun to help make the world a better place. We can and we will.
sherlock8898 1 month ago
Devastating talk. It opened my eyes.
tantzer 1 year ago 2
I've jacked off into the ocean before. I felt the need to give back to my mother, Earth. It felt great.
TonyBtheEG 1 year ago
they say, 90/5 % percent of the fix is knowing what ails us. Also know the universe works best when we's asleep. Time to let all our busyNess implode to doing as little as possible as much of the time we can get away with. He is right, it is us who need shift from productivity (and oft mindless busyNess to the art and act of being .
HamOnCan 1 year ago
I would love that everything was dead in the ocean. I can then enjoy a fearless swim.
JimmyGunXD556 1 year ago
@JimmyGunXD556 Except that whatever killed everything in the ocean would probably kill you, too.
mikefry 1 year ago
@JimmyGunXD556
You do realize that by the time everything is dead in the ocean the water would be too toxic to swim in? You retard!
jacobleb420 1 year ago
@JimmyGunXD556 A fearless swim of nothingness to appease your simpleminded unfounded fears.
numnunums 1 year ago
@numnunums Your right maybe I should be a Steve Irwin and fear nothing until it bites me in the ass. Nice try sounding like intelect. But you get an "F". After reading the statement you just made the military would be a nice career for you.
JimmyGunXD556 1 year ago
@JimmyGunXD556 . I stated that I was already in the military. You're not to good at this whole debate thing.
It's also spelled Intellect by the way and the proper use is intellectual not intelect. I guess they give any old retard an internet connection nowadays.
numnunums 1 year ago
@numnunums takes a retard to understand a retard! HAHAHAHA I set you up man !! Whoo Hoo Horahhh!!!!
JimmyGunXD556 1 year ago
@numnunums Oh I am very good at debate. What would you like for me to pound you on today?
JimmyGunXD556 1 year ago
@JimmyGunXD556 Get an education first. This isn't 2 in the afternoon at the bar.
numnunums 1 year ago
So the 70's movie Soylent Green now becomes oddly prophetic. Who can we thank for this? I can tell you - the baby boom generation. Which means my generation and those that follow, we can go pound sand. Shame on them.
kd1s 1 year ago
this is pretty dam scary.
drorjs 1 year ago
This really hurts to watch. why isn't this on the news everyday? capitalism ruined the world; is it too late? are we too far gone?
shreddingNBD 1 year ago 3
@shreddingNBD We are not. I have begun to see mankind change for the better. We can and will make the world a better place.
sherlock8898 1 month ago
the worlds problems have nothing to do with world leaders it has everything to do with modern societies... if you wanna go to the grocery store and buy food brought in buy nonrenewable means, golf 18 holes on our water wasting course, watch gas wasting nascar races, drive SUVs, drink our starbucks etc we are the source of the dilemmas. the leaders aren't the ones working in these nature killing blue collar jobs. we are because we worship money and place a monetary value on everything!
Th3Wab3 1 year ago 7
Lacks the TED edge. This topic has been covered, but could benefit from a more passionate presenter.
kinsmed 1 year ago
@whiteswamfromthesful Stopping sport fishing will not have an impact on this problem, because it is not at cause in the first place. Also, all people involved are schooled very differently and are all quite different; I think all leaders of the world do understand but that it simply is not very high up their agenda, since there are more pressing matters which need attending (like the financial crisis, and the threat of nuclear terrorism).
Waranoa 1 year ago
@whiteswamfromthesful you mean stop commercial fishing? Sport fishing doesn't affect fish stocks in larger populations.
Waranoa 1 year ago
We're so fucked...
TheFusionIcon 1 year ago 2
This shits real, yo
LemonLimeLaughter 1 year ago 3
I agree that human overpopulation is a key part of the problem. However, it is only part of the problem. Coupled with that is the fact that many people act like spoiled rotten children. They want to be able to drive their gas-guzzling SUVs as fast as they want, eat whatever they want and not pay any attention to the consequences.
We are acting just like the people on Easter Island who cut down the trees so they could move giant carved heads around, not realizing they were killing themselves.
mikefry 1 year ago 24
Is there any hope? Please, somebody, tell me there's hope.
Joerexia 1 year ago
most lovely speech, passionate but not comphortable voice knowledgable Brand-new subject to think about scary. Human being I
manir61 1 year ago
I think everyone will agree that the biggest problem is over population. There are just way too many people.
HaT223 1 year ago
@whiteswamfromthesful
sport fishing has no effect at all (compared to the fishing industry)
i don't think that making sport fishing illigal would do anything other than uppset people. You say the government is to blame, but who is the government? the government is the people! How strong the government is, is the same as how much we as individuals cooporate with each other. And the reason why the governemt doesn't have the money is because we/the people have to vote for a stronger government.
greenplantnorth 1 year ago
@whiteswamfromthesful
sport fishing isn't the problem. it's the massive fishing industry. We need to stop buying fish that comes from the free ocean.
but however i don't think the majority of people understand this or care. what we need is a strong government which actually do something about the problem
greenplantnorth 1 year ago
HUMANITY ROCKS!!!!
Kampex 1 year ago
Am I the only one that was expecting Jeremy Clarkson?
Lucky13Vinnie 1 year ago
its sorta funny when he talks about what we'll see in the oceans in 50 or so years.... when it gets to that point it's highly provable there won't be many of us left to see it. at the end he almost UNDER-states the importance of what he's saying, and of us getting rid of modern civilization
(the need to import resources, and living beyond what your land base can produce), agriculture (monoculture that destroys living systems and makes us live OUTSIDE the natural world), and such...
caseyforever 1 year ago
Evolution of mind has successfully brought us into our accelerated future, but unfortunately with eyes which see only objects and want, not time and consequence. It's not quite so 'peachy' after all to be at the top of the food chain any more, is it?
harleynanda 1 year ago
More great news.
devourerofbabies 1 year ago
Good talk!
wtzOlt 1 year ago
I'm from Mississippi where the most popular fish to eat are farm bred catfish. While obviously there are no quick fixes to this problem, it would go a long way if consumers would insist only buying farmed fish. When we start to look on ocean caught fish as essentially wild game, we can harness those market forces that have destroyed our oceans to revive them.
hasatum 1 year ago 3
really, really enlightening talk. I loved it.
ybefutile 1 year ago
I think the whiteman is an alien, we have NEVER been able to live in harmony with nature, its like we popped out of nowhere and have been destroying everything ever since. its insane. Its like Avatar, but the Navi are non-whites ie naive people of countries that COULD live in harmony with nature.whereas whites destroy everything and mine precious minerals weird...lol
the7thwreck 1 year ago
It's hard to click "like" on a video like this, but thank you TED for hosting and posting this most excellent talk.
Aiden057 1 year ago
well thats left me feelng depressed and helpless....not a good start to the day
groMMit1981 1 year ago
@VictorphoenixDMvault You are right. Next year we will make room for a vegetable in our yard. We already are loaded with fruit trees and berries. But...we consider ourselves to be lucky to do so, not everyone can grow their own food. Plus, how long would a vegetable garden feed a family of 5 anyways. I know the apples, plums, cherries, and berries only last through the summer and our trees are hugh.
JosephW99 1 year ago
@JosephW99
Wow, a WHOLE vegetable!!!!
(Not to detract from the worth of your comment, but I always find it humorous when an overlooked typo or omission puts an entirely new spin on things. Read once again the second line of your reply to VictorphoenixDMvault. I'm prone to committing semantic suicide myself sometimes, but considering a family of five, this was a good one.)
harleynanda 1 year ago
Capitalism must die for humanity to live.
hardinmichael1981 1 year ago
@hardinmichael1981 Humanity must die for the planet to live.
CraigusMalaigus 1 year ago 2
@CraigusMalaigus Humanity did not destroy the planet. Capitalism has destroyed the security of the future of humanity. People used to know how to live well on this planet. Some of us have forgotten. We need to remember.
hardinmichael1981 1 year ago
@CraigusMalaigus
Humanity must evolve, or die. I would personally chose evolve :)
BFDK 1 year ago 3
@CraigusMalaigus Wrong. We may have made mistakes. But Mankind has begun to change for the better. We can and will change the world for the better.
sherlock8898 1 month ago
I SENSE CHAOS. THE RESULT WILL BE EVOLUTION. man needs a slap in the face to move.
tiosemilla 1 year ago
STOP EATING FISH!
jamblinuk 1 year ago
This makes me think of all the books of adventure that I read, like Robinson Crusoe, the Swiss Family Robinson and Treasure Island. It was a time when the world was full of both plant and animal life. A world not burdened by overpopulation existed once. Earth is being turned into a desert and into a worldwide cemetery. That is the truth and no one does a damn.
Jasonstarwalker 1 year ago 20
what the fuck is a carl reef?
moewahba35 1 year ago
@moewahba35 coral reef you moron
CraigusMalaigus 1 year ago
@CraigusMalaigus way to detect sarcasm! You seem like an astute young chap.
moewahba35 1 year ago
The solution is simple: eat less fish. And for all those people asking what to eat my anwser is: eat chicken. It's cheap, tasty, easy to breed and chicken farms does not harm the environment. Whats funny is that in fish farms fish are actually fed with chicken (there was a ted talk about that).
Alkoholwioslaidziwki 1 year ago
@Alkoholwioslaidziwki I don't see how eating farm-raised fish can harm the ocean?
tantzer 1 year ago
thats messed up. people around 17min mark are sleeping... thats just so wrong. i know this guy may seem boring and we already know this but i meen the least you could do is open your eyes and stay awake. i meen how selfish could you be. this make me so sad. anyways. ya...
TonPappa 1 year ago
Greedy us !
We could try to consume lest.
2 things , consume lest we will died.
We are almost 7 milliards of peoples eating each days almost all of us eating 3 meals and snack a day.... some of us can't fine any food , i think soon if we are not taking care we will be also in the gang who dont eat.
We could change it , if we realy want
didikh 1 year ago
Life's a piece of shit
When you look at it
Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true.
You'll see it's all a show
Keep 'em laughing as you go
Just remember that the last laugh is on you.
And always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the right side of life...
(Come on guys, cheer up!)
captquest1 1 year ago
Capitalism must die for humanity to live.
hardinmichael1981 1 year ago
Lets be honest, I mean brutally honest.... Asians, he's referring to you all.
IH8WRONGPPL 1 year ago
@IH8WRONGPPL Sorry to burst your bubble, but point the finger at someone else isn't going to fix your problem. You really think the Asians collapsed the fisheries in the North Atlantic?
sckchui 1 year ago
If this guy knew what he was talking about, he wouldn't compared an old photo of a catch of Goliath Groupers with a catch of recent snappers. Adult fish are much different in size, say, hundreds of pounds and Goliath Groupers are illegal to possess now. Biological pollutants are deadly , but more deadly than this oil spill in the Gulf ?????? Don't think so ! We'll lose all of our fisheries by 2048 ?? Perhaps if pollutants at the current rate persist, but not by overfishing. 5:13 to 5:45 lol !
strikenetter 1 year ago
We've wrecked the water, the air, the trees, the animals, the geography, any illusion of world peace, and the ice caps. We've become technologically reliant, narcotically dependent, politically indecisive, and distrustful of science.
We can't decide on gay marriage, and we can't decide on abortion. I think that's stupid. If there's one thing we need, it's homosexuality and abortion, because both of those do the one thing that can help humanity.
We need less people
Bigfishlittlepond 1 year ago 91
@Bigfishlittlepond i couldn't agree anymore, very well said.
cullensaquarium 1 year ago
@Bigfishlittlepond i like your views. you can join my revolution anyday
braap02 1 year ago
@Bigfishlittlepond You first.
WimpBastard 1 year ago
@Bigfishlittlepond 28 thumbs up and well deserved.
Shalek 1 year ago
@Bigfishlittlepond by your logic we should legalize murder...
McSnookerman 1 year ago
@McSnookerman By my logic, we should make contraceptives more widely available, and use them more often. By my logic, we should have less kids and teach them better, or don't have any of our own, but take into our care those kids who require it. We don't need murder or any other sort of aggressive euthenasia. We have nature to do that for us. Might as well let it be until we cure cancer, maybe after our population is under control.
Bigfishlittlepond 1 year ago
@Bigfishlittlepond Come on over to Norway. Big country, few people, gay marriage, sensible abortions and hardly any crime.
revesvans 1 year ago 45
@revesvans god dam dude, sounds like a paradise
TheBlitz1 1 year ago
@revesvans too bad it is so damn cold there...
ThunderPreacher 1 year ago
@ThunderPreacher I'ts not that cold and in the summer the nature is beautiful (at least in the north).
zurokiar 1 year ago
@revesvans
true all that is against humanity!!
Only good is a hardly any crime!
Ibersexualac 1 year ago
@revesvans I've been thinking about it!!!
JimmyGunXD556 1 year ago
@revesvans ... and hardly any sun or daylight ;) (no offence, I really love Scandinavia)
MsSumai 1 year ago
@revesvans I love Norway and lived in Oslo for 7 years.... but it's not exactly the most enviromentally-friendly country in the world. All the oil Norway has sold to the world has created huge amounts of CO2 and they are one of the few world nations that still have an active whaling industry... so lets not pretend that it's all wonderful.
tommyboomboom 1 year ago
@Bigfishlittlepond You speak just for the U.S.A.
Lucky13Vinnie 1 year ago 2
This has been flagged as spam show
@Bigfishlittlepond "If there's one thing we need, it's homosexuality and abortion"
Grammatical error, your argument is invalid.
Icepaxx 1 year ago
Agent Smith was right.
DeSwiss 1 year ago 5
@DeSwiss WE ARE A VIRUS!
AMP3G 1 year ago 4
That was depressing as hell.
Ambushcrysis 1 year ago
The planet will be back at peace when man is gone.
Docthewrench 1 year ago 5
@Docthewrench Aye, The planet is fine. We're fucked.
Swissynopants 1 year ago 8
@Swissynopants oh yeah !!!!
bogdy72000 1 year ago
@Swissynopants And the only reason were here is to produce plastic.
AmericanCritiquer 1 year ago
@GrudgyDiablo This always happens; I doubt the codec has difficulty with this, so i suspect it's being done on purpose, maybe related to copyright issues.
Bothers me too.
HiAdrian 1 year ago
@HiAdrian Nevermind, just saw that some pictures are okay. I wonder how they could possibly fuck that up if they just uploaded the mp4's from their website...
HiAdrian 1 year ago
We need to fix our fucking oceans. QUICK!
C'mon people, lets evolve.
Justin9Noble 1 year ago
what global warming??? this its the problem of the century
tenisplayer 1 year ago
So what the fuck am I supposed to eat now....I mean we just changed to fish because the meat industry is so inhumane and unhealthy.....This leaves me with carrots and peanuts and I am already tired of carrots and peanuts....sardines are the healthiest meat we can eat and have a comeback or regrowth rate far better than any other fish....I'm stick'n with the sardine, carrots and peanuts until I hear from the next genius that sardins, carrots and peanuts are actually bad for your health.
JosephW99 1 year ago 9
@JosephW99 Fish meat is meat...
xaleus 1 year ago
@JosephW99
Haha I love how even after listening to this TED talk you make all about you...
DistinctiveBlend 1 year ago
@DistinctiveBlend It is about me and you and the next person all the way up dumbass. enviromentalists are always talking about how we...the individual should and could make a difference....IT IS ABOUT ME.....in this house, we try to make a difference by recycling properly and consumtion conservation. so don't even try to SPIN my comment.
JosephW99 1 year ago
@JosephW99
The video highlights the damage that has already been done and that it wont just fix itself, that things are now under attack from many different angles that we pretty much created.
Yet in you come complaining that your diet might have to change. I found that amusing as it's long past that point now and unfortunately too many people don't know and/or care. I'm not saying don't do it, I'm saying far more is needed now.
DistinctiveBlend 1 year ago
@DistinctiveBlend You still don"t get it....what has happened has happened....( you can cry about that all you want, it wont change anything) there is no way to go back and change our fishing habits or how we wrecklessly polluted the oceans...the point is we need to think more about our planet and it life cycle than, taking better care of the world we live in may ensure a longer more enjoyable stay for humans on this planet..AND that happens one person at a time
JosephW99 1 year ago 2
@JosephW99 Great comment!
mcgrawtim123 1 year ago
@JosephW99
Eat what you want to eat, and don't let karma affect your diet.
ClayCult 1 year ago
@JosephW99 Sardines are bad for your health. Trust me, I'm an expert.
Crucidildo 1 year ago
@JosephW99
What we all need is for Cannabis to be put on a heck of a lot of farmland. Talking about so-called "industrial hemp" here, with such low content of THC that denying its industrial use underlines the ignorance and disregard for science of those denying it. The EU allows for growing of <0.3% strains, but alas! it's up to individual EU-countries whether to allow it on their farm-land or not. So nothing is really happening. God DAMN the ignorance and indifference of decision makers!
piotrezzz 1 year ago
If it's all fucked up in 50 years and we've got bigger problems than today it's all deserved. Let's just hope we can have a new start.
xilliah 1 year ago
@GrudgyDiablo its a youtube thing during the upload/conversion process
marzbar619 1 year ago
i thought this was jerry jackson.
great all the same
gratex 1 year ago
I was listening to this with another window in front of it, so I didn't see the video, and for the first minute or so I thought he was talking about a man named "Carl Reeves"
JimHisself 1 year ago
This talk evokes a wide range of thoughts and emotions...
The final (and pointless) picture in my mind at the end was of enraged mobs dragging people like Glen Beck out of their homes and lynching them...
GetMeThere1 1 year ago
this is just, well, utterly depressing. all politics and controversies aside, the never-ending stream of bleak news leaves me feeling sick.
fla0303 1 year ago 3
@fla0303
I understand you.
sparrow111260 1 year ago
Shit! Im scared
kyral210 1 year ago 2
Looks like everyone should get involve, not just the government. Government usually higher intellects that debate the pros and cons, which should help the environment, but we all know the results. Planting a tree everyday should keep the doctor away. Only you can make a difference.
quakepapi 1 year ago 3
Canada dumps 1.6 trillion liters of untreated sewage into the Atlantic and Pacific every month.
ThisBoyTV 1 year ago
Those are some goddamn big fish at around 6:00
junka22 1 year ago
Government is the only thing that can stop this.
Moron conservative de-regulators and market hype has raped the environment.
The greed of capitalism has wrecked traditional methods, smashed left and green movements which want to regulate and manage production sustainably.
In Iceland they have no-fishing zones which allow the oceans to recover.
Protest against corps and kick conservatives out of Govt. Attack the deregulation lobbies and ranting right-libertarian corp. stooges.
marsCubed 1 year ago 3
@marsCubed Government is part of the solution, but it's most of the problem too, so don't bash Libertarians. Libertarians are opposed to pollution and the big government corruption that facilitates it.
For decades, the highways and freeways in my state were always littered, sometimes dangerously so. Now capitalists pay to clean them at no taxpayer expense. The purpose of government is to manage things for us, not do it all for us.
We need smaller, smarter government.
shockferret 1 year ago
@shockferret That is BS.
Right 'Libertarians' have repeatedly pushed for corps to rape oceans to extinction & the selfishness of Ayn Rand, for the corporations to trash forests and wildlife reserves.
You have been duped by Beck and Fox hype
If a corp fixes a road it will hose out the homeless or cut down the trees which live along side for the very same reason. blind profit chasing.
Move left, right 'libertarian' is another word for fascist in Europe.
Look to Noam Chomsky not Phil Gramm or Bush.
marsCubed 1 year ago
@marsCubed It's not BS, it's the truth.
Here's something else that's true. The pro-big government Democrat Party controls the US government almost completely right now and major ecological reform has yet to show signs of materializing.
BTW, what makes you think I care for Glenn Beck or G.W. Bush?
Don't you know the difference between a Neo-Conservative and a Libertarian?
No wonder you're prejudiced. Are you sure you haven't been duped?
shockferret 1 year ago
@shockferret But some government seeks to control all as you realize that nwo thing... and police state nations.
XaneCrazy 1 year ago
climate change is caused by solar fluctuations on the sun..... CO2 follows the rise in temperature, it does not cause it.
Pollution is a very important issue. However, CO2 is not pollution....
clevername333 1 year ago
@clevername333 What exactly to you think the mechanism for C02 following a rise in temperatures?
gt6303c 1 year ago
I don't think we'll ever learn. We're a disgusting and idiotic species who deserve what is coming to us. Man has consumed the earth and soon he will begin consuming himself.
Blackliam 1 year ago 3
@Blackliam Wrong. We can change and I have seen it happen. We can and will make the earth a batter place.
sherlock8898 1 month ago
Such an obvious and savage implicit condemnation of modern global capitalism (if not capitalism per se)...and yet, even alongside the global housing and securitization driven crises of the markets themselves, nothing puts the least dent in the 'markets macht frei' theology. No God but God, and Milton Friedman is his prophet.
Not even to mention the oil disaster ongoing in the gulf that, as a Floridian, brings a whole separate set of concerns.
What a mess. What a nightmare.
terpis 1 year ago
@ToshiroDK You're definitely right, but you have to admit there is a segment of our capitalist society that bristles over the idea that anyone engaged in any business practice is inhibited in any way. Those for whom free-market capitalism is a religion, essentially. Also note that he called them capitalistic jerks, not just capitalists - I think he understands that not all capitalists are assholes.
wrongheadedfool 1 year ago
The photographs he shows are frustrating because they take 30 seconds to resolve. I imagine it has to do with the video compression failing at the scene change. It's frustrating to hear him make points about imagines that I can't see.
I see his point about trawling. We should stop that junk right now.
How is N fertilizer subsidized?
Well that talk was... scathing. What a lovely watch to brighten my day.
zassounotsukushi 1 year ago
It was hard to press the "Like" button on this video given the horrifying message. Citizens of Earth should be attending mass protests against governments that allow fishing corporations to decimate our oceans like this. Thank you TED for this video.
1140Cecile 1 year ago 2
Great. Now I'm totally depressed. Thanks a lot TED!
etzel33 1 year ago
Dissolved CO2 makes acid.
By 2100, at current rates of increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide, average ocean pH will drop 0.3 - 0.4 and be @ 7.8 with an increase in acidic H+ ion concentration of 150-200%.
That will cause a 50% DECREASE of ocean carbonate ions (CO3).
Carbonate ions are needed for growth by plankton & corals at the base of the ocean's food chain.
Oops!!!
For info. on CO2 ocean acidification check:
Dr. Richard Feely, NOAA
Ocean Acidification Part 1 of 3
/watch?v=0KgRpJxWQDw&NR=1
goog2k 1 year ago
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Trigunflame 1 year ago
The Story of Stuff, deals with the same topic a more general way:
/watch?v=9GorqroigqM
Freigeist20789 1 year ago
I'm 27. Things may get worse and worse in the future. But I'll still like to see where this is all going. Whether we'll find a solution to remedy the majority of the pressing problems or we'll go down the drain.
wetyewruyrtsutrdhjfg 1 year ago
@wetyewruyrtsutrdhjfg just build hydroponic farms to feed the population and live in a fucking dome. And listen to illogical politicians.
juggep80 1 year ago