The System That Makes Ocean Problems Feel Like Your Fault

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Why does caring about the Ocean sometimes
make you feel worse instead of better?

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You learn about plastic pollution,
coral bleaching, overfishing, rising

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Ocean temperatures, disappearing
species, and suddenly it feels

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like everything is broken.

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You care deeply, but the more
you care, the heavier it feels.

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So what are people supposed to do?

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They can shut down.

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They can scroll past it.

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They can tell themselves there's
really nothing they can do.

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But if you're feeling that
powerless, what if it isn't

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just because you care too much?

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What if it's because you've
been told to solve a collective

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problem all by yourself?

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We don't talk enough about how
many people are carrying the

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environmental stress right now.

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How many is it just
sitting on your shoulders?

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I know for time to
time it feels exhausting.

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Some call it climate anxiety.

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Some call it equal anxiety.

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Some call it Ocean anxiety, and
some people just call it exhaustion.

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And honestly, it makes sense.

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Every day we hear about another crisis.

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Marine heat waves, whale entanglements,
plastic pollution, coastal flooding,

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policy rollbacks, habitat loss.

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Even now as you are hearing this, you're
probably like, Andrew, what are you doing?

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This sounds like your regular podcast.

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Why are you telling me all this same?

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And I have to admit, like even last
week, if you heard any of last week's

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episode about Antarctica, about leopard
seals, about orcas, about emperor

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penguins, even about the glaciers
that we talked about in Antarctica last

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week, you probably felt the same thing.

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'Cause it was depressing.

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It was really depressing.

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Andrew, my brain is starting to ask
what difference can I actually make?

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Like should I recycle more, drive
less, buy less plastic, eat different

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seafood, never travel again?

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Like, is that what I'm supposed to do
if I'm not supposed to look at my phone?

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'cause like we know the politicians, those
types of politicians are like, well,

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if you use your phone, you're kind of
giving into the whole fossil fuel thing.

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Yeah.

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We know that, right?

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We know that's what they love to say.

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But we're in a system that's built
to just encourage that type of talk.

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The questions you're asking matter,
but they can also become a trap because

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when the problem is massive, personal
responsibility alone can feel crushing.

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It's really difficult to
do everything yourself.

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Like even in my own household.

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Like individuals, we always try and
be like, okay, is this recycling?

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Is this not recycling?

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It's tough to kind of like
decipher everything 'cause every

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piece of plastic is different.

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And so like when we're trying to recycle
and decide whether our region looks at

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this type of recycling or not, or they
come up with a complicated word for all

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this stuff and you're just like, well, is

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this the type of plastic it is, but it's
got a waxy feeling like maybe our region

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looks after it, like region of Halton.

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Maybe it does recycle
it, maybe it doesn't.

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It could be really complicated
to just do your part.

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For years, environmental messaging has
focused on one thing, do your part, and

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yes, individual choices actually matter.

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I don't want you to think that it doesn't.

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You still should bring a reusable bottle.

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You should reduce waste.

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You should choose better products.

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You should support sustainable businesses.

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All are good things.

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But here is the problem.

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When individual action is presented
as the main solution, people start

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believing that if the Ocean is still in
trouble, they must not be doing enough.

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Like imagine you do everything right.

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You reduce your garbage.

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You have a reusable bottle,
like the kids do that.

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Adults do that as well.

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You buy an EV car, maybe you buy
solar panels or things like that,

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and you still look around and you're
like, uh, yeah, it's still terrible.

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When an individual action is presented as
the main solution and doesn't work, people

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start to be like, well, hold on a second.

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It creates guilt, not momentum.

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It doesn't create a movement.

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I interviewed Sarah Fetterman just this
week, and you're gonna hear it on Friday.

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And one of the powerful points that was
made is that a lot of the pain people

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feel comes from collective problems,
but we often try to solve the pain with

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individual action, and that mismatch
actually matters because no reusable

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straw can replace strong fisheries policy.

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Imagine that.

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We say, oh, well, you should be
drinking out of a paper straw.

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Nobody likes that.

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We all know that.

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No single person can stop illegal fishing.

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No one family can restore an estuary.

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No one consumer can
regulate offshore drilling.

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The issue is not that
personal actions are useless.

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It's that they are incomplete.

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So what works, andrew?

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Like what are we talking about here?

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We're talking about collective action.

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Research discussed in the interview that
I highlighted earlier, that anxiety

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around environmental issues can shift when
people work with others to take action.

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That's what makes sense.

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Not individual action, not just working
on your own, but collective action.

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When you act with others,
you share the burden.

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You feel the momentum, you see progress.

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You build those relationships,
you stop feeling alone.

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Imagine just cleaning up your
neighborhood with a community, with

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your neighborhood, like your neighbors.

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Imagine just going out and being
like, Hey, this is kind of cool.

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Like we're actually
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We're building relationships.

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Not only that, we're seeing our neighbors
collectively come together and say, yeah,

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no, to pollution in our neighborhood.

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'Cause like, I don't know if you guys
have it, I know I keep going to garbage,

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but when is garbage day here at my house?

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It's every Monday.

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It seems like it's the
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So all the recycling gets blown over.

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I come home from after work or
I go out, I work from home now.

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I go outside after work to get my
garbage pails and recycling bins and

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everything, and I bring 'em inside
and I look on my front lawn and I

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see garbage that's not from my bins.

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I know it's not from my bins.

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I don't use those products
and I see it from others.

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So like all of a sudden you're
like, why are the neighbors

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putting stuff on my lawn?

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But it's really just the wind
from the garbage, and that's how

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it gets around the neighborhood.

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If you don't pick it up and it's somebody
else's garbage, but it's on your property.

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Or like, you know, my neighbor,
my neighbor's elderly.

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She's a great woman, but she's
not gonna go out every day and

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pick up trash off her lawn.

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So like, as a neighborhood, we
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We kind of pick up that stuff.

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And to be honest, like a lot of the times
I should be, as I walk the dogs in the

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neighborhood, I should pick up the stuff.

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But sometimes when you're doing it alone,
you're like, why am I always doing this?

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Why isn't anybody else doing this?

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So if you do it as a community, go to a
beach cleanup, do a river cleanup in your

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neighborhood, whatever that might be.

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It's huge because you're
not doing it alone.

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And that last point that I
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That's a huge one because
isolation magnifies the fear.

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Community creates the actual resilience.

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Speaking up with others feels
different than worrying about yourself.

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Now for a long, long time, for
11 years, I've been podcasting.

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And I've been sitting in my office
normally doing solo episodes by myself.

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And when I know that there are other
people that are starting podcasts, when

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I know that there are other people who
are doing the great work, it's awesome,

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but they're doing it on their own.

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And sometimes that can feel isolating.

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It's not their fault.

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It's not my fault.

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It just feels isolating 'cause
you're doing it on their own.

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You're speaking up on your own.

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I've talked about this a
number of times on my podcast.

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I joined a group of, like a coalition
of other science communicators.

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Most of them are in the US
but some of us are in Canada.

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And we get together every once in
a while and we collectively as a

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coalition, collaborate on science
communication posts, whether it

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be on Instagram, on LinkedIn, on
a podcast, or anything like that.

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And we come together and do it.

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And when I see other people
doing the same work that I'm

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doing, it makes me feel so good.

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Showing up to a meeting feels
different than doom scrolling.

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Joining a cleanup feels different
than reading another headline.

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It's always something that makes
it worse when you do it alone.

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Even learning together feels
different than panicking alone.

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Some of these news articles,
man, they are dangerous.

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They are dangerous.

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They either like over blow what's
happening just so you can click

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on it, but it makes you scared.

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And people do not wanna
see doom and gloom.

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They wanna see optimism, they
wanna see that there's hope.

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They wanna see people working.

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And when you start to read more optimistic
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is optimistic, but when you start to
read those things, it really helps.

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So what does collective
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I've talked a little bit about it.

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It does not have to mean chaining
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becoming a full-time activist.

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No, you don't have to do that.

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Sometimes it looks like maybe
joining a local conservation group.

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Or starting a local
conservation group yourself.

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Back in the day we used to
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And that would just be like everybody else
is like, you know, they had two parents

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would walk along the neighborhood at
night just to make sure everything's fine.

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Nobody's getting broken into.

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Everybody's looking out for each other.

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They know the neighborhood, they know
the kids, they know the families.

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And they kind of just
look out for each other.

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Imagine doing like a community
watch, but for oceans.

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Doing beach cleanups, wetland
restoration, shoreline stewardship,

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maybe some citizen science.

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Sounds like a lot of fun.

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You can support advocacy campaigns,
sending comments on Marine protected

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areas, writing elected officials,
backing science-based policy.

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All these things are really great.

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Community science, track species
sightings, which is kind of cool.

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I know I have a neighbor
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He takes pictures of the birds too.

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It's just incredible pictures.

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Water quality monitoring.

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You can always get part of that.

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Reef observations if you live near one.

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Unfortunately, I don't.

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You can share skills.

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There's no stopping it.

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Maybe you're a teacher, a designer,
an accountant, a communicator,

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a photographer, a coder.

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All those skills can help Ocean
organizations make more than you think.

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Can help more than you think.

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Being part of a learning
community, and yes.

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Even this podcast can be a part of that.

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Every time you listen or you share
an episode, you send a story to a

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friend, or you start a conversation,
you're helping build a network

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of people who actually care.

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Imagine taking this and having a
conversation with your family about it.

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Just taking this episode and just talking
about Ocean anxiety, climate anxiety.

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That matters because it
gets people thinking.

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You're having an intellectual
conversation on something

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that's happening to all of us.

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Because movements are made of connected
people, not the perfect people.

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It doesn't have to be the best
thing that comes out of everything.

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So here's the shift I want
you to remember today.

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I don't want you to just ask,
what habit should I change?

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I want you to ask, who can I join?

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The question changes everything.

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Instead of carrying the Ocean
on your shoulders, you become

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part of something bigger.

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Instead of guilt, you get direction.

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Instead of helplessness,
you get a movement.

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Instead of anxiety, you get an agency.

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And no, it's not gonna
fix everything overnight.

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And joining a newsletter of an
organization who's always asking

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you for money so they can do
more work is also not gonna help.

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You have to get involved.

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You have to join something.

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Look for something that can get involved.

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And if there's nothing
around, start something.

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There's nothing stopping
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It could be volunteer, it could
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whatever you decide it to be.

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But it will change how you feel.

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It can change what becomes possible next.

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So if caring about the Ocean has
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there's nothing wrong with you.

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You're reacting to a real problem, but
you were never meant to carry it alone.

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Find your people.

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Join the effort.

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Take one step at a time with others.

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That is the change that starts.

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That is the hope that becomes real.

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I wanna leave you with that
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inspiration of episodes this week.

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We're gonna be talking about the
realism of what it's like to do Ocean

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conservation, what it's like to be an
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a scientist, whether you do it as a
full-time career, whether you just

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care about the Ocean and you want
to see something done to protect it.

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You care about the planet, you care
about the climate, and you wanna see

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something help because let's be honest.

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Climate is Ocean.

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Ocean is climate change.

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It's all the same.

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Even more so.

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So when you go to a climate week
next time, you make sure you say,

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Hey, where's this Ocean stuff?

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Because ocean's a huge thing.

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But do it in a community.

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Join that community.

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Surf rider, great community to join.

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All right.

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I'd love to hear if you join a
community or you started something

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that has to do with the Ocean.

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I'd love to hear your thoughts.

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Go to speak up for blue.com/feedback.

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If you're listening to this
on Spotify, leave a comment.

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I'd love to hear your thoughts.

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' Cause this is an inspirational week.

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This is a week that I want you to get
up and I want you to get out there

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and I want you to do something about
it, about the Ocean, about the planet.

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It's Earth Week.

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It's Earth Week this week and
I want you to feel like it.

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I don't usually do stuff like around Earth
Week, but this week is something special

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'cause we're seeing a lot of stuff go on
around the world that is really concerning

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especially around the environment,
a lot of rollbacks happening in the

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environment, not only in the states,
but also in Canada and elsewhere.

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We need to protect the Ocean.

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We need to make sure those
regulations are in place 'cause they

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are in place to protect the Ocean.

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We just celebrated.

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I believe it was like 50 years
of the Magnuson-Stevensons Act,

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which is the big Fisheries Act

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in the US.

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It has brought back a lot of
fisheries in the US to be sustainable.

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So happy to celebrate that.

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But also we need to celebrate this Ocean.

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We need to celebrate this planet.

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We need to do something about
it by joining a community.

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So I wanna thank you so much for
joining me on today's episode

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and I want to hear your thoughts.

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Speak up for blue.com/feedback.

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I'm your host, Andrew Lewin.

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Have a great day.

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We'll talk to you next time
and happy conservation.