Oceans Day: A Message of Hope and Action for Ocean Conservation

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This is an Ocean's Day episode. Now

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you're probably going to watch this after

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Ocean's Day because

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Ocean's Day 2025 is on the 8th.

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I publish on the 9th and you're probably

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going to see this at some point.

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But I hope that this resonates with you

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at any point in time you watch this,

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whether it's June 8,

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2025 or December 25, 2025,

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or even 2026, 2027 and

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further down the road.

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We see a lot of problems with our oceans.

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We see a lot of problems with nature and

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a lot of the times and most of the time

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it's due to us, the humans.

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We are in a wasteful world and we

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continue to perpetuate that world through

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politics, through policies, through

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actions and through promises.

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And whether we want to do it or not, or

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we're just a victim of circumstances in

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this whole game we call ocean

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conservation and then we call

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world, we need to have hope.

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And that's going to be the message I want

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to drive home today

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is the message of hope.

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There's been a number of different things

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that have brought me to this lately that

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I've seen lately on TV, including the

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Star Wars, which is all about hope, but

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it speaks to everything that we are

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facing as a world population,

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everything that we need to do.

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And we need to feel hopeful to get

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inspired and inspire others to take

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action to do better for our oceans, for

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nature and for our planet.

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So we're going to talk about that on

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today's episode of the How to Protect the

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Ocean podcast. I promise you you're going

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to feel better after this. So watch the

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entire episode. Let's start the show.

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Hey, everybody. Welcome back to another

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exciting episode of the How to Protect

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the Ocean podcast. I'm

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your host, Andrew Lewin.

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And this is the podcast where you find

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out what's happening with the ocean, how

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you could speak up for the ocean, what

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you could do to live for

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better ocean by taking actions.

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It is June 9th. Now, when I record this,

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well, actually, I recorded a week early,

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but when I published is going to be June

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9th. I am getting ready to go to Nice,

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France for the UN

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Ocean Decade Conference.

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The UN Ocean Decade is 10 years, a decade

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between 2020 and 2030, where we are

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dedicating towards the ocean. There's a

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lot of action that is happening. There

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are a lot of promises that are being made

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by government as we speak because the

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conference goes from, I think,

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it's June 5th to the June 15th. It's a

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long conference. I'm going to be there

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from the 11th to the 15th. I'm going to

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bring you more episodes later on next

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week to be able to provide you with my

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experience in one of these conferences,

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the people I met. Hopefully, I'll get

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some interviews as well, but there'll be

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a lot of content driven around this. But

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it's one of those days where I always

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have trouble talking about it because

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this podcast, every day we live, Ocean's

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Day, right? Every day, June, Ocean's

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Week, Ocean's Month, whatever you want to

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say it, it's always over.

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It's Ocean's Day here at this podcast.

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Every time you tune in, it's Ocean's Day

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because we live for the ocean every time

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I either record or publish and every time

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you listen and hopefully get inspired by

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a lot of the guests by some of the

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stories that I talk about and some of the

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motivational stuff that we do.

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And that's what today is going to be

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because look, we're facing a world that

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sucks right now, especially when it comes

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to ocean conservation. We have

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politicians in place that are either

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causing problems for everybody else like

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Donald Trump or you're in a country where

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the politicians have to react to certain

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politicians like Donald Trump to be able

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to say, hey, we need to divest our

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necessities or requirements to depend on

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a place like the US and we need to build

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something with other countries,

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especially when it comes to oil and gas.

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That means we may need to build more

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pipelines. We need to get more oil and

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gas out of the country, which means we're

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not going to reduce our footprint with

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oil and gas, which is what we've been

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wanting to do for the last decade or so.

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which is disappointing. I guess I'm

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talking about Canada, which is it's

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disappointing to me and there's a lot of

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worry that happens with that. You have

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oil and gas, which is a huge fossil fuel.

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It's dirty, especially when you take it

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out of the ground like the tar sands in

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Alberta and Saskatchewan, but it's also a

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necessity for our economy because our

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economy is essentially

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based on oil and gas.

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pickle, to be honest. It's not something

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that I like, but because of what's

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happening south of the border, we have to

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free up our dependence on the US for

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selling oil because we sell 95% of the

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oil to the US and we have to go to the

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different markets, whether it be

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European, whether it be Asian markets.

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what are we going to be doing with that

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oil and gas? How is that going to affect

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our environment as well as the world

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environment? Is that going to increase

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our greenhouse gas contribution or are we

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going to find ways to

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decrease it in other places?

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I don't really know. And it's giving me a

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little bit of anxiety when I start to

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think about it. In addition to that, we

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Ontario government here in Canada who are

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putting forth, as I mentioned a couple of

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weeks ago, a bill five that will replace

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the endangered species act with the

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species conservation act.

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Species conservation act, which

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essentially takes away recovery plans,

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which is a huge part of species at risk

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or endangered species act. They're going

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to take away protecting the areas where

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they could feed the

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areas where they forage.

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they actually sleep. So they're dense,

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essentially, which is not good. They're

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going to put together special economic

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zones, which essentially we can do

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whatever we want in these zones. We can

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develop, we can destroy

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whatever we want to do.

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and actions that have happened in the

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past and that will happen in the future

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to protect these species, to protect

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biodiversity, which helps protect the

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planet, which helps

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protect the environment.

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environment and habitats, and as well as

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will be prosperous for us and will stop

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with flooding and all this kind of stuff

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will increase without it.

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It builds on the anxiety. We have these

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politicians in place and they're saying

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they're using what's happening down.

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they'll say like the Ford government, the

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provincial government, Ontario saying,

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mandate. We said that there was a threat

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from the south that we have to do this.

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for a long time. He's just using what's

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happening down south as an excuse. And it

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just sucks. It really

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does sucks to see that.

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And so what I wanted to do today with all

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of this stuff is really talk about hope.

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I've seen two things over the last couple

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of weeks that have really brought me back

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into that hopeful feeling with all the

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crappy stuff that's

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happening in our world.

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We have seen examples of that and it was

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shown in the ocean documentary, the

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movie, so that we can see firsthand, not

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only the destruction that's in this case,

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the trawl fishering takes, but also the

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recovery that it can have when we allow

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things to recover, right?

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So we get this type of stuff and that

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makes me feel better because even though

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someone who sees the destruction and sees

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the policies and the politicians make all

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these crappy choices, having a video like

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that, having a movie like that and being

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able to get that distributed widely

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because Sir David Attenborough is pretty

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much the king of documentaries right now,

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seeing him speak like that with his passion and his voice and just as a way to do that,

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with his passion and his voice and just

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everything about him really resonates

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with a lot of people and people love

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watching documentaries by them, whether

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they're sad, whether they're happy, it

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doesn't matter. They love watching this

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and to watch a movie like the oceans, I

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feel will really inspire people to take

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action and I feel as though like looking

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at stuff with oceans and Oceans Day and

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Oceans Month will help

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inspire people to take action.

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That's the whole point of these Oceans

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Day weeks month. That's the point of why

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we're doing this is to say, Hey, you know

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what? We can still save the ocean. We

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just have to make a few changes. Some of

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them are big and some of them are small,

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but we have to make changes. It could be

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in your personal life and your behavior,

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or it could be on a wider scale,

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provincial, national, even local

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government scale and

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international scale, right?

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There's all these different ways that we

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can protect the ocean from a human side.

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And so today what I want to do is I want

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to go over some of those. I want to go

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over and say, Hey, you know what? There

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are certain things that you can do, not

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only to decrease your ocean anxiety or

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your climate anxiety, but also really

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help out with the movement.

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Help out with data analysis, help out

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with data gathering. There's so many

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things that we can do. And I'm going to

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talk about a few of those today to help

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inspire you to take action, to say, Hey,

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you know what? Some of these are really

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doable. They won't take that much change.

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It's just a matter of a little bit of

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change behavior, which I know can be

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tough on all of us, but something that we

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can do that may actually save us money in

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some places, but also make us feel better

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about the environment because we're doing

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something. That's part of it.

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Talking about it, listening about it and

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doing something about it really helps. So

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here's some of the things you can take,

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like personally actions that you can

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take, like our personal lifestyle

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changes. So we got eat sustainable

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seafood. There are guides like seafood

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watch and ocean wise in Canada and they

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have apps that help you make more

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informed decisions. Now, are they

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perfect? No, but they're better than just

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going blindly and just assuming that

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everybody is buying sustainable seafood.

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Go and look at these apps. Make sure you

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cover. You can look at multiple if you

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want, but make sure that you are covered.

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And say, look, if the person behind the

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counter or the waiter can't tell me if

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this is sustainable, because of where

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it's caught and how it was caught, then

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don't eat it. That's the action that you

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can take. That's the power that you can

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have and tell them that's why I'm not

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eating because you guys don't know. And

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you can't tell me. Okay. So that's one

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thing. The other thing you can do is

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reduce single use plastics might be a

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little hard at first. When you start to

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realize how many single use plastics are

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in our life, but you can carry reasonable

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water bottles, bag utensils and say no to

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straws. Use those paper straws.

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As much as people don't like them, they

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pretty much at the point now where you

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can actually drink out of one drink and

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you'll be fine. You have a metal straw

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that costs like two bucks. You can have

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straws. However you want. When we talk

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about straws, we're talking about people

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with disabilities that need those plastic

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straws. I completely understand. Do what

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you need to do, but these are the choices

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you could make if this works out for your

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lifestyle. But it's not just about

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straws, but all single use plastics all

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around. So like, for instance, I always

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go when I'm out in the air, I don't know how to do it. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

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So I'm in the office or I'm in the

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office. We go out for lunch once a week

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or so. I'll go to a place where I'll go

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buy food or get takeout for the office

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now I tend to go to a place that will

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have the reasonable containers that are

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compostable that tends to help me out. I

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know they're composed. We'll have done

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the research. I go to that place a lot

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more than I normally do. I don't use or

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compostable or

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environmentally friendly utensils.

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utensils. So I'm able to make those

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better decisions. Now, if

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we go to a different place

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and they don't serve environmentally safe

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or protected or non

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single use plastics, if

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they sell single use plastics, then I'll

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be careful in terms of

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how I'll use it. I'll

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say no to a plastic bag, no to plastic

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utensils, and I'll just bring the

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container even though

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that's plastic. You can't get away from

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all of it. I don't want

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people reducing what you

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eat or where you eat from, but that's a

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power that you have if

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that's important to you.

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You can avoid those places because that

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is something that you

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want to avoid. You don't

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want to have single use plastics. You can

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even talk to the

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owner or the people behind

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the counter and say, Hey, you know what?

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Like I would love to

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get that. I would love

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for you to get like environmentally

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friendly containers and

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it's supposed to happen like

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in Canada anyway, it's supposed to

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happen. So just reduce

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single use plastics to a point

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where you can not have to have them at

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all. Not depend on them

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at all is always great.

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Use reef safe sunscreen. This is

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basically the non-enzene benzene type of

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sunscreens. They have

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harmful chemicals like

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oxybenzone that bleach reef. So anything

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that's mixed with zinc is usually pretty

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good. It's harder to

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put on. It's not the best, but they're

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getting better at making

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ones that are easy to put on.

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They don't feel like when you put them on

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and you can still see the

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sunscreen. It could be a pain in

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the butt. I use it as much as possible.

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It's also better for your skin. So

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there's always a secondary

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benefit when using those. Now, of course,

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you can also reduce carbon emissions. You

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can bike, you can walk, you can take

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public transit and you can

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eat more plant-based foods.

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Those are some of the things that you can

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do that will immediately reduce your

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footprint on the planet. That's something

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that's really important.

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Pick up litter, even if it's not yours.

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So a beach on the street in your own

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neighborhood, it all flows downstream.

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Wherever it goes, it will find a waterway

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and it will flow downstream. So the more

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you can pick up, the better. Sometimes

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like when I'm on a walk,

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I'll even bring like gloves or something

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in a bag and I'll just pick them up and

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walk in the dogs or something. And I feel

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like the dogs like it

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when I pick up that plastic.

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Because I don't know about you, but I

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have one dog who likes to eat everything.

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It takes away from her and especially

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hurting her stomach when she eats it.

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I don't catch it at her eating it. So

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picking up that stuff, picking up litter

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off the ground is always helpful. And it

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takes care of your neighborhood, right?

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It takes care of your city or town that

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you live in. And it allows you to be

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like, you know what? I help keep this

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clean. This is something

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that's really important.

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Now, some of the mental and emotional

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actions that you can take to turn your

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anxiety down is join a community or an

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online forum. You can join the undertow

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community by going to speakupforblue.com

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forward slash the undertow that

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speakupforblue.com forward slash the

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undertow to join our community where you

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can talk about this stuff.

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Get it off your chest. Read stories that

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are a positive stories about the oceans.

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Hear people talk about the oceans and be

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like, Oh, I want to get in on this

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action. You can do a lot of that. That'll

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be really great. Many of us have social

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media and we have these fees that we

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could actually curate because the fees,

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the algorithms based on what you interact

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with and what you watch or what you read.

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And that's going to be important. If you

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want to read more about the ocean and

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positive stories, start engaging with

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those stories, share them, like them,

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love them, whatever you have to do and

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comment on them to say, hey, thanks for

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sharing this positive stuff.

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Then you could start to be like, Hey, you

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know what? Like I'm starting to get

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really interesting information on my

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newsfeed and use it for what it's

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supposed to be. Not just like Karen's

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getting people arrested or people

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complaining about everything.

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You could find very good positive

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environmental news on whether it be

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TikTok or Facebook or Instagram or

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whatever you're watching Snapchat,

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whatever you're watching, you can find

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out. But you have to curate that a little

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bit. You have to do that for yourself.

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You can practice ocean gratitude. So take

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moments and reflect on the ocean's beauty

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and importance and not just the ocean

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lakes and streams as well. I was talking

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to a friend of mine when I went away to

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Vancouver last week. We were walking in

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Stanley Park, which is a very famous park

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in Vancouver and it's

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right along the ocean.

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We were walking along the ocean and we're

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just smelling the air, looking at the

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ocean, looking at the mountains in the

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background and just enjoying the moment.

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In fact, even when my buddy went in, he

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went in swimming even though it was like

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54 degrees Fahrenheit or something like

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that. It was crazy cold. He went in and

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had a nice swim because it was a nice

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day. He wanted to cool off. He definitely

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cooled off, but he enjoyed the moment.

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Right? And then next, you know, about

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five minutes later after he got out of

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the water, we see some seals. We enjoy

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the ocean. And I told him, I said, you

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know what? We probably take it for

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granted that he grew up in an ocean.

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We don't get to be around or we don't

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take in the moment when we're around Lake

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Ontario, Lake Erie, all the different

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great lakes that are here, the five

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different great lakes and just like enjoy

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the view, enjoy what they represent,

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enjoy what we see each and every day that

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like I have a 20 minutes away. I have a

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beautiful walk like a beautiful lakefront

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and I could walk that every day and I

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don't. I don't even though I should every

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time I do it. I'm like, I should do this

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more. So don't take it for granted. If you really want to do this, I'm going to take it for granted.

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If you live around a lake or even you can

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walk by a stream or something, enjoy

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nature, enjoy the moment, enjoy the green

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space, the more you enjoy it, the more

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politicians keep it around. So and the

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more you'll enjoy that gratitude. Okay?

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So now you can also share the ocean wind.

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So talk about successful conservation

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stories in your social circles,

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especially when somebody

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tries to bring you down.

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There's somebody in your group that's

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trying to bring you down by bringing down

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like, Oh, it's so sucks that we have

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climate change and there's flooding and

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this and that's like, Oh, you know what?

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There's actually somebody who prevented

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flooding and one of their cities and talk

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about those stories have like a roster of

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stories to be like, Yeah, this is what I

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want to do. That's really important.

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And then limit doom scrolling. This is

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what my therapist tells me all the time.

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Like there's a lot of crappy things going

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on in the world and they're shown on

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TikTok, on Instagram, on social media in

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general. Stay away

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from that stuff, right?

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Limit that type of scrolling, go out and

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enjoy nature. Go for a walk. If you have

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pets, take them for a walk. If you can

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take them for a walk. If you go out and

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you're near a water body and you can go

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swimming, go kayaking, go whatever. Just

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even walk along the side. Just take in

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the breath of fresh air, enjoy it. And

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that will help you recover from all this

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doom scrolling. It'll help you really

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enjoy nature and understand how nature

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functions just by being in and watching.

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Watch the birds and listen to the birds

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and watch the animals and see what they do.

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And look at their behaviors is so much

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better for you. Let's talk about using

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your voice, speaking up for the ocean,

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speaking up for the blue. You can host or

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join a World's Day event. Like I'm going

531
00:17:02,250 --> 00:17:03,666
to nice. I'm not expecting everybody to

532
00:17:03,666 --> 00:17:05,791
go to Europe, but there's always an event

533
00:17:05,791 --> 00:17:08,416
on June 8th. I attended this in the past.

534
00:17:08,416 --> 00:17:10,208
Of course I attended. I know doing this.

535
00:17:10,208 --> 00:17:11,583
It's it'll be in the future. This week

536
00:17:11,583 --> 00:17:13,625
I'm attending and I attended an Ocean's

537
00:17:13,625 --> 00:17:15,875
Day event in a library in Milton, which

538
00:17:15,875 --> 00:17:17,125
is just the city beside me.

539
00:17:17,166 --> 00:17:19,875
And I got to talk to a lot of people who

540
00:17:19,875 --> 00:17:21,625
are interested about the ocean, whether

541
00:17:21,625 --> 00:17:23,083
it's careers, whether it's just about the

542
00:17:23,083 --> 00:17:24,458
ocean in general, talking about the

543
00:17:24,458 --> 00:17:26,541
ocean, even podcasting, talking about

544
00:17:26,541 --> 00:17:27,958
speaking up for the blue is really

545
00:17:27,958 --> 00:17:29,625
important. And so speaking up for that

546
00:17:29,625 --> 00:17:31,625
blue and hosting a day event or being a

547
00:17:31,625 --> 00:17:33,375
part of that attending one is always

548
00:17:33,375 --> 00:17:35,125
great in the future when you can do so.

549
00:17:35,500 --> 00:17:37,500
Right to elected officials emails,

550
00:17:37,500 --> 00:17:40,583
letters, write stories, personal stories

551
00:17:40,583 --> 00:17:42,291
of why you think the ocean important, why

552
00:17:42,291 --> 00:17:43,500
you think your lakes and rivers are

553
00:17:43,500 --> 00:17:45,125
important and the environment important.

554
00:17:45,375 --> 00:17:47,833
I'm sure they cannot ignore that. They

555
00:17:47,833 --> 00:17:49,958
have to read everything that you put.

556
00:17:49,958 --> 00:17:51,291
They have to listen to everything you

557
00:17:51,291 --> 00:17:53,125
say. They may not agree with you and they

558
00:17:53,125 --> 00:17:54,500
may do something different, but you can

559
00:17:54,500 --> 00:17:55,125
force them to listen to it.

560
00:17:56,125 --> 00:17:57,958
Read it because that is your power. You

561
00:17:57,958 --> 00:17:59,541
elected them there. They are there to

562
00:17:59,541 --> 00:18:02,083
answer for you. Some politicians are

563
00:18:02,083 --> 00:18:03,458
better than others. Those are not very

564
00:18:03,458 --> 00:18:05,333
good. You don't elect them the next time

565
00:18:05,333 --> 00:18:06,583
and you tell people about. I was like,

566
00:18:06,583 --> 00:18:07,875
hey, I wrote to this person never

567
00:18:07,875 --> 00:18:09,958
responded or he never said he said the

568
00:18:09,958 --> 00:18:11,208
opposite of what's being done.

569
00:18:11,625 --> 00:18:13,208
He understood my plight, but I'd said my

570
00:18:13,208 --> 00:18:14,833
piece and this is how he treated me or

571
00:18:14,833 --> 00:18:17,666
she treated me or they treated me and I

572
00:18:17,666 --> 00:18:19,500
don't like it. And so you can talk about

573
00:18:19,500 --> 00:18:21,416
that as well. And then you can support

574
00:18:21,416 --> 00:18:23,791
indigenous ocean stewardship amplifying

575
00:18:23,791 --> 00:18:24,125
the indigenous voices that are important.

576
00:18:25,125 --> 00:18:27,125
And they're on social media that are on

577
00:18:27,125 --> 00:18:29,416
the internet and initiatives in your area

578
00:18:29,416 --> 00:18:32,166
can really help in terms of managing the

579
00:18:32,166 --> 00:18:34,416
environment. So lifting those voices up

580
00:18:34,416 --> 00:18:36,875
is really important. Nobody protects the

581
00:18:36,875 --> 00:18:38,583
environment like indigenous people and

582
00:18:38,583 --> 00:18:40,125
their culture. It's so important.

583
00:18:40,166 --> 00:18:41,625
And now we're just starting to scratch

584
00:18:41,625 --> 00:18:44,375
the surface of collaborating with and

585
00:18:44,375 --> 00:18:46,750
having indigenous communities lead

586
00:18:46,750 --> 00:18:48,916
conservation in and around their area.

587
00:18:49,333 --> 00:18:50,833
Start ocean conversation. Talk with

588
00:18:50,833 --> 00:18:52,833
friends, family, or even coworkers about

589
00:18:52,833 --> 00:18:55,041
what they can do to like how they can be

590
00:18:55,041 --> 00:18:56,375
in conservation. Some of them will be

591
00:18:56,375 --> 00:18:57,625
very negative because people don't want

592
00:18:57,625 --> 00:18:59,375
to change, but it's very important that

593
00:18:59,375 --> 00:19:00,541
you talk to them because there's going to

594
00:19:00,541 --> 00:19:01,958
be those few. They're like, oh, I could

595
00:19:01,958 --> 00:19:03,625
do that. And they might do that. They

596
00:19:03,625 --> 00:19:04,791
might respect you enough to

597
00:19:04,791 --> 00:19:06,125
do that. So that's always good.

598
00:19:06,416 --> 00:19:08,083
And then of course, post educational and

599
00:19:08,083 --> 00:19:09,791
hopeful ocean content, you can share the

600
00:19:09,791 --> 00:19:11,791
stuff in my podcast. We can look at

601
00:19:11,791 --> 00:19:13,083
beyond jaws and all the stuff that's

602
00:19:13,083 --> 00:19:15,041
going on there. There's a lot of hopeful

603
00:19:15,041 --> 00:19:16,875
and great projects that we're talking

604
00:19:16,875 --> 00:19:18,666
about. And you can share those clips that

605
00:19:18,666 --> 00:19:20,708
I send out on social media. You know, the

606
00:19:20,708 --> 00:19:22,083
ones you've probably seen them quite a

607
00:19:22,083 --> 00:19:23,791
bit. There's a lot of different things

608
00:19:23,791 --> 00:19:26,250
that you can do that will help you share

609
00:19:26,250 --> 00:19:27,125
these types of stories.

610
00:19:27,125 --> 00:19:29,833
Let's get into like the hands on action

611
00:19:29,833 --> 00:19:32,208
so you can support and volunteer or even

612
00:19:32,208 --> 00:19:34,541
provide financial help. You can donate to

613
00:19:34,541 --> 00:19:37,083
ocean conservation organizations, even $5

614
00:19:37,083 --> 00:19:39,500
a month to the ocean Conservancy or any

615
00:19:39,500 --> 00:19:41,625
kind of local organizations will really

616
00:19:41,625 --> 00:19:43,750
help them a lot, especially that monthly

617
00:19:43,750 --> 00:19:45,625
spend is what a cup of coffee, maybe even

618
00:19:45,625 --> 00:19:46,333
less than a cup of

619
00:19:46,333 --> 00:19:47,125
coffee that could help out.

620
00:19:47,125 --> 00:19:49,416
And if more and more people donate the

621
00:19:49,416 --> 00:19:51,291
same amount, then you can really get

622
00:19:51,291 --> 00:19:52,875
something moving and support these

623
00:19:52,875 --> 00:19:54,416
organizations, especially local

624
00:19:54,416 --> 00:19:56,333
organizations that need your help. You

625
00:19:56,333 --> 00:19:58,458
can volunteer for beach cleanup or river

626
00:19:58,458 --> 00:20:00,583
cleanups or any kind of cleanup. Anything

627
00:20:00,583 --> 00:20:02,666
that helps the environment, even going on

628
00:20:02,666 --> 00:20:04,708
walks and stuff like that. Nature walks

629
00:20:04,708 --> 00:20:06,500
is always a great thing and doing it

630
00:20:06,500 --> 00:20:08,666
yourself. You can support ocean focused

631
00:20:08,666 --> 00:20:11,291
businesses. This is a huge thing. Look up

632
00:20:11,291 --> 00:20:13,916
B Corps. These are corporations that have

633
00:20:13,916 --> 00:20:16,125
a social enterprise twist to them. These are for profit purposes.

634
00:20:16,125 --> 00:20:18,000
These are for profit businesses that want

635
00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:20,250
to protect and help their employees. They

636
00:20:20,250 --> 00:20:21,541
want to protect and help the environment

637
00:20:21,541 --> 00:20:22,791
and they want to protect and help

638
00:20:22,791 --> 00:20:24,791
society. These are great businesses that

639
00:20:24,791 --> 00:20:26,958
you can support very easy by just buying

640
00:20:26,958 --> 00:20:29,333
their products and or services. You can

641
00:20:29,333 --> 00:20:32,083
adopt a sea creature or you can adopt a

642
00:20:32,083 --> 00:20:35,291
tag like follow FA hlo. You can actually

643
00:20:35,291 --> 00:20:37,125
go on their app and their website. I've

644
00:20:37,125 --> 00:20:38,750
talked about this before. I actually have

645
00:20:38,750 --> 00:20:40,625
their bracelets have two other bracelets.

646
00:20:40,625 --> 00:20:42,041
Their shark, their regular shark and

647
00:20:42,041 --> 00:20:43,791
whale shark where they actually team up

648
00:20:43,791 --> 00:20:46,125
with organizations that tag and

649
00:20:46,125 --> 00:20:47,625
animals, whether they be in aquatic or

650
00:20:47,625 --> 00:20:50,458
marine or even on land and they tag

651
00:20:50,458 --> 00:20:52,000
animals that you can watch them. You can

652
00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:53,583
actually get an animal and you can watch

653
00:20:53,583 --> 00:20:56,083
them forever. If that tag falls off, you

654
00:20:56,083 --> 00:20:57,375
get another animal. You can see where

655
00:20:57,375 --> 00:20:59,166
they go. It's really cool what you can

656
00:20:59,166 --> 00:21:01,500
see. It's all on an app. So really great

657
00:21:01,500 --> 00:21:03,125
thing that you can do there. You can

658
00:21:03,125 --> 00:21:05,291
offer your skills so you can write you

659
00:21:05,291 --> 00:21:07,500
can design you can code you can market

660
00:21:07,500 --> 00:21:09,666
all those can help nonprofit

661
00:21:09,666 --> 00:21:11,375
organizations and citizen science

662
00:21:11,375 --> 00:21:12,666
projects who don't have the people with

663
00:21:12,666 --> 00:21:14,291
those skills in their organization

664
00:21:14,291 --> 00:21:14,958
because they might

665
00:21:14,958 --> 00:21:16,125
just be a one-off project.

666
00:21:16,166 --> 00:21:18,166
that just is very tight on budgets.

667
00:21:18,458 --> 00:21:19,416
Everybody's tight on budgets.

668
00:21:19,416 --> 00:21:19,916
So the more you can

669
00:21:19,916 --> 00:21:20,875
volunteer, the better.

670
00:21:20,875 --> 00:21:22,500
You can also go on a board of directors,

671
00:21:22,500 --> 00:21:23,666
that would help as well.

672
00:21:24,208 --> 00:21:26,083
Now you can look at taking more action

673
00:21:26,083 --> 00:21:27,583
and be curious and contribute.

674
00:21:27,583 --> 00:21:28,875
So you can participate in

675
00:21:28,875 --> 00:21:29,875
marine citizen science projects,

676
00:21:30,708 --> 00:21:32,166
apps like iNaturalist,

677
00:21:32,166 --> 00:21:33,583
eBird for shorebirds,

678
00:21:33,583 --> 00:21:34,875
or ReefCheck, or even

679
00:21:34,875 --> 00:21:35,875
citizens of the reef.

680
00:21:35,875 --> 00:21:36,791
If you go on their website,

681
00:21:37,291 --> 00:21:38,500
they have a way that you can,

682
00:21:38,500 --> 00:21:39,500
we talked about with Andy

683
00:21:39,500 --> 00:21:40,958
Ridley a couple of weeks ago,

684
00:21:41,166 --> 00:21:42,000
where we talked about

685
00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:44,125
identifying boulder corals,

686
00:21:44,125 --> 00:21:45,875
plate corals, branching corals,

687
00:21:46,166 --> 00:21:47,666
all these different types of formations

688
00:21:48,125 --> 00:21:49,583
and helping the AI be

689
00:21:49,583 --> 00:21:51,000
as accurate as possible.

690
00:21:51,333 --> 00:21:52,291
It's really kind of fun.

691
00:21:52,291 --> 00:21:53,000
I've done it before

692
00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:54,000
and it's a lot of fun.

693
00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:54,500
It's really easy.

694
00:21:54,500 --> 00:21:55,500
You can just do it with your hand.

695
00:21:55,500 --> 00:21:56,041
You can do it with a

696
00:21:56,041 --> 00:21:57,083
couple of clicks of the mouse.

697
00:21:57,333 --> 00:21:58,041
It's really great.

698
00:21:58,041 --> 00:21:58,458
You can do that.

699
00:21:58,458 --> 00:21:59,375
I'll put a link in the show

700
00:21:59,375 --> 00:22:00,791
notes to get access to that,

701
00:22:00,791 --> 00:22:02,291
but citizen science of the reef.

702
00:22:02,500 --> 00:22:04,125
It's basically being able to gather data

703
00:22:04,125 --> 00:22:05,458
for the Great Barrier Reef.

704
00:22:05,458 --> 00:22:07,166
But you can also take in a free ocean

705
00:22:07,166 --> 00:22:08,958
course or a webinar.

706
00:22:09,083 --> 00:22:11,125
The MOOCs, these are, I

707
00:22:11,125 --> 00:22:12,333
forget what it stands for,

708
00:22:12,375 --> 00:22:13,375
but there's a shark one,

709
00:22:13,625 --> 00:22:14,916
Shark MOOC, that's available.

710
00:22:15,166 --> 00:22:17,125
These are massive online courses, I

711
00:22:17,125 --> 00:22:18,083
think, ocean courses.

712
00:22:18,375 --> 00:22:19,541
And it's all about sharks.

713
00:22:19,541 --> 00:22:20,583
You get to learn all about sharks

714
00:22:20,583 --> 00:22:21,458
and help identify

715
00:22:21,458 --> 00:22:22,375
them and stuff like that.

716
00:22:22,375 --> 00:22:22,958
It's really cool.

717
00:22:23,291 --> 00:22:24,791
You can read ocean conservation books.

718
00:22:24,791 --> 00:22:25,750
We have lots of books.

719
00:22:25,750 --> 00:22:26,791
There's some books behind me.

720
00:22:27,208 --> 00:22:28,000
I've talked about books.

721
00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:28,916
I've had authors on.

722
00:22:28,916 --> 00:22:30,166
You can read lots of ocean

723
00:22:30,166 --> 00:22:31,625
books and conservation books

724
00:22:31,625 --> 00:22:32,375
and learn about the

725
00:22:32,375 --> 00:22:33,541
oceans and the heroes,

726
00:22:33,875 --> 00:22:35,750
like Dr. Sylvia Earle, Dr.

727
00:22:35,750 --> 00:22:37,208
Ariana Elizabeth Johnson,

728
00:22:37,458 --> 00:22:39,250
Octavia Bell, Jasmine

729
00:22:39,250 --> 00:22:41,791
Graham, Dr. David Schiffman.

730
00:22:42,166 --> 00:22:43,833
There's so many people, Dr. David Ebert,

731
00:22:43,833 --> 00:22:45,250
who's my co-host on Beyond Jaws,

732
00:22:45,500 --> 00:22:47,208
that you can get to know by their books

733
00:22:47,416 --> 00:22:48,458
and their ocean stories and

734
00:22:48,458 --> 00:22:49,416
share those ocean stories.

735
00:22:49,875 --> 00:22:50,500
You can watch ocean

736
00:22:50,500 --> 00:22:52,166
documentaries with family and friends

737
00:22:52,375 --> 00:22:53,291
and talk about those

738
00:22:53,291 --> 00:22:54,541
movies with other people.

739
00:22:55,083 --> 00:22:56,916
Just had Oceans, Sir David Attenborough,

740
00:22:56,916 --> 00:22:57,708
which is always great.

741
00:22:58,083 --> 00:22:59,000
There's so many out there.

742
00:22:59,208 --> 00:23:00,666
Just be careful which ones you go for,

743
00:23:00,666 --> 00:23:01,125
because some of the

744
00:23:01,125 --> 00:23:02,416
messages aren't always the best,

745
00:23:02,625 --> 00:23:03,875
but most of them are pretty good.

746
00:23:04,125 --> 00:23:05,541
And you can follow local marine projects

747
00:23:05,666 --> 00:23:07,291
or any kind of environmental projects.

748
00:23:07,500 --> 00:23:08,375
It doesn't matter if you're on the coast

749
00:23:08,375 --> 00:23:09,375
or outside the coast,

750
00:23:09,666 --> 00:23:10,250
you can follow them on.

751
00:23:10,250 --> 00:23:11,250
You can stay informed and

752
00:23:11,250 --> 00:23:12,875
engaged with what's happening

753
00:23:12,958 --> 00:23:13,916
near your coast.

754
00:23:13,958 --> 00:23:14,541
That's the list, but of course,

755
00:23:15,125 --> 00:23:15,958
there's so many other

756
00:23:15,958 --> 00:23:16,875
things that you can do.

757
00:23:17,083 --> 00:23:18,416
That was a list of 25 of

758
00:23:18,416 --> 00:23:19,208
them that we went through

759
00:23:19,208 --> 00:23:20,625
in about almost 25 minutes.

760
00:23:21,208 --> 00:23:23,000
And so these are things that you can do

761
00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:24,333
just on today's Ocean Day.

762
00:23:24,333 --> 00:23:26,250
The next year, you can start to focus.

763
00:23:26,250 --> 00:23:27,125
You don't have to do all of them.

764
00:23:27,500 --> 00:23:28,333
You can pick one, you

765
00:23:28,333 --> 00:23:29,500
can pick half of one,

766
00:23:29,500 --> 00:23:30,500
you can do whatever you'd like.

767
00:23:30,791 --> 00:23:32,208
But the more you act, the

768
00:23:32,208 --> 00:23:34,291
better you feel about the ocean,

769
00:23:34,291 --> 00:23:35,458
the better you feel your contribution,

770
00:23:35,750 --> 00:23:36,750
the more you lower your

771
00:23:36,750 --> 00:23:38,250
anxiety, which is always great.

772
00:23:38,250 --> 00:23:40,541
Now, I'm not a therapist by any means,

773
00:23:40,916 --> 00:23:42,791
but I am somebody who worries about the

774
00:23:42,791 --> 00:23:44,000
ocean on a daily basis.

775
00:23:44,791 --> 00:23:45,750
Sometimes I get really

776
00:23:45,750 --> 00:23:47,666
worried based on what people say

777
00:23:47,708 --> 00:23:48,333
and some of the

778
00:23:48,333 --> 00:23:49,416
policies that are put in place

779
00:23:49,416 --> 00:23:50,416
and laws are put in place

780
00:23:50,416 --> 00:23:52,041
or even worse taken away.

781
00:23:52,541 --> 00:23:53,541
But the ocean always wins

782
00:23:53,541 --> 00:23:54,958
out, whether we're here or not,

783
00:23:54,958 --> 00:23:56,041
the ocean will always win out.

784
00:23:56,416 --> 00:23:56,916
And it's better that

785
00:23:56,916 --> 00:23:58,125
we're here and we protect it

786
00:23:58,458 --> 00:23:59,625
and we reduce our

787
00:23:59,625 --> 00:24:00,833
negative influence on it

788
00:24:01,208 --> 00:24:03,458
and start to benefit the ocean.

789
00:24:03,458 --> 00:24:05,166
So that's my message for you today

790
00:24:05,166 --> 00:24:06,333
with all the crap that's

791
00:24:06,333 --> 00:24:07,541
going on with the ocean,

792
00:24:07,625 --> 00:24:08,375
with the environment,

793
00:24:08,375 --> 00:24:09,916
with the world today,

794
00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:12,166
there are ways to find hope and that

795
00:24:12,166 --> 00:24:13,500
could include education,

796
00:24:13,500 --> 00:24:14,166
that can include

797
00:24:14,166 --> 00:24:16,125
action, whatever you might do.

798
00:24:16,125 --> 00:24:18,875
And to get both of those all in one shot,

799
00:24:18,875 --> 00:24:19,875
you can go and join

800
00:24:19,875 --> 00:24:20,916
the undertow community

801
00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:21,625
by going to

802
00:24:21,625 --> 00:24:24,625
speakupforblue.com forward slash the undertow.

803
00:24:24,625 --> 00:24:26,208
We're going to be launching soon.

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And I'd love to see you part of it.

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I'd love to see you in there and I'd love

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to interact with you.

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That's the best part of

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the undertow communities

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that we actually get to interact with

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people virtually on video,

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on audio, whatever that might be.

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And also written.

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So it's a great online community.

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Highly recommend that you join us

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speakupforblue.com

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forward slash the undertow.

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And I also want to say thank you so much

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for what you do already.

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Just by getting education, if you're

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acting for the ocean,

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I'd love to hear more about it.

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You can hit me up on

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Instagram at how to protect the ocean

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or you can go to speakupforblue.com

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forward slash contact.

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Fill out the form goes right to my email,

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but you can also see me

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in the undertow community.

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So speakupforblue.com

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forward slash the undertow.

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I want to thank you so much for joining

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me on today's episode of the how to

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protect the ocean podcast.

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I'm your host, Andrew Lewin from the true

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north strong and free.

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Have a great day.

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We'll talk to you next

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time and happy conservation.