WEBVTT 00:11.667 --> 00:14.095 - Thank you so much, Secretary Kerry, 00:14.095 --> 00:16.131 for this stirring call to action. 00:16.131 --> 00:18.411 We all know what we need to do, 00:18.411 --> 00:22.578 and our first panel today is a group of visionary leaders 00:23.220 --> 00:26.478 who through their words, actions, and imagery, 00:26.478 --> 00:29.247 are inspiring us and the next generation 00:29.247 --> 00:32.124 to make a difference to protect our ocean. 00:32.124 --> 00:36.291 Each one has a cultural or personal connection to the sea 00:36.540 --> 00:38.460 that has informed their tremendous 00:38.460 --> 00:40.793 contributions to this cause. 00:41.468 --> 00:45.301 Nainoa Thompson is a native Hawaiian navigator 00:46.199 --> 00:50.057 and President of the Polynesian Voyaging Society. 00:50.057 --> 00:54.224 He has impressively navigated double hulled canoes 00:54.290 --> 00:57.251 around the world to grow a global movement 00:57.251 --> 01:00.001 toward a more sustainable planet. 01:00.462 --> 01:03.504 I have the honor of visiting with Nainoa and his crew 01:03.504 --> 01:05.300 when they sailed up the Potomac 01:05.300 --> 01:08.883 as part of their 24,000 nautical mile trip. 01:10.994 --> 01:14.577 Jeff Orlowski is an award winning director, 01:15.195 --> 01:17.457 producer, and cinematographer. 01:17.457 --> 01:20.439 Anyone who has seen his film Chasing Ice 01:20.439 --> 01:22.535 is very familiar with his work 01:22.535 --> 01:26.162 which really conveys the impact of climate change 01:26.162 --> 01:28.995 on our enormous, ancient glaciers. 01:29.565 --> 01:33.088 Not surprisingly, he is working on a new film 01:33.088 --> 01:35.902 using the same creative approach that will capture the 01:35.902 --> 01:39.402 massive coral bleaching that is occurring. 01:39.992 --> 01:43.326 And lastly, I'm so pleased that Roz Savage, 01:43.326 --> 01:45.927 an adventurer, rower, and author, 01:45.927 --> 01:49.102 to name just a few of her many talents, is here to describe 01:49.102 --> 01:52.750 what she has witnessed rowing across the ocean. 01:52.750 --> 01:56.034 She holds four world records for ocean rowing 01:56.034 --> 01:58.768 including, as the first woman to row across 01:58.768 --> 02:02.101 the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Ocean. 02:02.916 --> 02:06.583 In 2010 she was named Adventurer of the Year 02:07.798 --> 02:11.875 by National Geographic, so Roz, I leave the floor to you. 02:11.875 --> 02:14.292 (applauding) 02:19.499 --> 02:22.744 - Your excellencies, ladies and gentlmen. 02:22.744 --> 02:23.936 I'd like to start by sharing 02:23.936 --> 02:27.353 a very personal perspective on the ocean. 02:27.650 --> 02:31.567 Out of the the 520 nights that I've spent alone 02:31.918 --> 02:34.751 on the ocean in a 23 foot rowboat, 02:35.235 --> 02:39.023 there is one in particular that stands out in my memory. 02:39.023 --> 02:42.919 It was 2009, and I was in the middle of the Pacific, 02:42.919 --> 02:46.086 somewhere between Hawaii and Kiribati. 02:46.649 --> 02:49.886 I was rowing through the doldrums, the equatorial region 02:49.886 --> 02:53.750 where the wind drops away to nothing, the sun beats down 02:53.750 --> 02:57.417 and it feels hot enough to boil your brains. 02:58.015 --> 03:01.769 I'm British, so I don't do very well in the heat. 03:01.769 --> 03:04.911 The day had been absolutely sweltering. 03:04.911 --> 03:06.415 The night was a little cooler, 03:06.415 --> 03:09.720 but it was still terribly stuffy in the sleeping cabin. 03:09.720 --> 03:11.369 It was an unusually calm night, 03:11.369 --> 03:13.582 so I thought I'd try lying out on the deck 03:13.582 --> 03:15.328 for a little while, at least until 03:15.328 --> 03:17.895 the next rain swell came along. 03:17.895 --> 03:19.752 So I dragged my sleeping bag out of the cabin 03:19.752 --> 03:23.769 and nestled down between the runners of my rowing seat. 03:23.769 --> 03:25.769 I gazed up at the stars. 03:27.209 --> 03:31.376 ^So far away from light pollution, they were just incredible. 03:32.135 --> 03:35.073 ^The Milky Way stretched diagonally across the sky 03:35.073 --> 03:38.458 ^from horizon to horizon, and the longer I looked, 03:38.458 --> 03:41.371 ^the more stars I saw, until it seemed as if 03:41.371 --> 03:45.038 ^the entire sky was glittering with diamonds. 03:45.641 --> 03:49.308 For a beautiful moment, I forgot everything. 03:49.320 --> 03:52.073 I forgot about my blisters and my heat rash 03:52.073 --> 03:54.073 and my aching shoulders. 03:54.310 --> 03:57.393 I forgot my nationality and my gender 03:57.484 --> 03:59.567 and the color of my skin. 04:00.151 --> 04:04.049 I forgot who I was and where I was and even why. 04:04.049 --> 04:07.110 For a moment I even forgot to be human, 04:07.110 --> 04:10.799 and simply allowed myself to be a citizen of the ocean, 04:10.799 --> 04:12.419 and be absorbed into the spellbinding 04:12.419 --> 04:14.419 beauty of the night sky. 04:15.955 --> 04:17.529 And then the score blew in and I had 04:17.529 --> 04:19.173 to scurry back into the cabin, 04:19.173 --> 04:21.296 but for a brief, magical moment, 04:21.296 --> 04:25.294 I felt so completely at one with the world around me. 04:25.294 --> 04:27.515 And I was so grateful, despite all the hardships 04:27.515 --> 04:30.846 of rowing across oceans, that life had brought me 04:30.846 --> 04:33.929 to this place at this moment in time. 04:34.189 --> 04:37.073 Because my life could have been very different. 04:37.073 --> 04:39.815 I used to live a very conventional, urban life, 04:39.815 --> 04:41.360 just another London yuppie commuting 04:41.360 --> 04:44.159 to an office to work a 12 hour day. 04:44.159 --> 04:47.344 What caused my rather radical career change 04:47.344 --> 04:50.865 was an exercise I did one day in my early 30s. 04:50.865 --> 04:52.936 I was trying to figure out what I really wanted to be 04:52.936 --> 04:55.984 when I grew up, so I decided to write two versions 04:55.984 --> 04:59.013 of my own obituary, the one that I wanted, 04:59.013 --> 05:03.159 and the one that I was heading for if I carried on as I was. 05:03.159 --> 05:05.228 As a child of the Thatcher Reagan years, 05:05.228 --> 05:07.912 I had thought that a decent job and a safe salary 05:07.912 --> 05:11.296 and a big house were what life was all about, 05:11.296 --> 05:13.478 that the money would make me happy. 05:13.478 --> 05:16.645 But when I did that obituary exercise, 05:16.817 --> 05:20.259 I was astonished to find that what I really wanted 05:20.259 --> 05:23.422 was to live courageously and to make a difference 05:23.422 --> 05:27.172 in the world, to leave some kind of a legacy. 05:27.682 --> 05:30.838 I can remember how I felt as I wrote that fantasy obituary. 05:30.838 --> 05:33.250 It seemed almost like I'd opened a door 05:33.250 --> 05:36.753 into a parallel universe and glimpsed the life 05:36.753 --> 05:39.503 that I was supposed to be living. 05:40.567 --> 05:42.712 It wasn't an instant transition from office work 05:42.712 --> 05:44.885 to ocean rower, but from that moment on, 05:44.885 --> 05:47.098 the writing was on the wall. 05:47.098 --> 05:49.948 I do believe that there's something remarkably powerful 05:49.948 --> 05:52.716 about creating a vision of the future. 05:52.716 --> 05:54.791 The vision starts to draw you forward, 05:54.791 --> 05:58.862 ^guiding your decisions and clarifying your choices. 05:58.862 --> 06:00.621 ^And it wasn't long after that that I had 06:00.621 --> 06:04.788 ^an environmental awakening, and I found my vocation. 06:04.892 --> 06:06.995 ^I resolved that no matter how insignificant 06:06.995 --> 06:10.272 ^my impact might be, I just had to do something 06:10.272 --> 06:14.307 to raise awareness of our environmental challenges. 06:14.307 --> 06:16.212 And the fact that I had rowed at Oxford was enough 06:16.212 --> 06:18.312 to give me the happy illusion that rowing alone 06:18.312 --> 06:20.003 across oceans was something that I was 06:20.003 --> 06:23.420 vaguely qualified to do, how wrong I was. 06:24.379 --> 06:27.555 And so I took out my oars for the cause. 06:27.555 --> 06:30.305 And rowing across oceans is hard. 06:30.565 --> 06:32.450 There is nothing like 30 foot waves 06:32.450 --> 06:34.965 when you're alone in a tiny rowboat 06:34.965 --> 06:36.923 to remind you where human beings 06:36.923 --> 06:39.434 stand in the overall scheme of things. 06:39.434 --> 06:42.101 Nature is unbelievably powerful, 06:42.319 --> 06:45.710 and we need her a lot more than she needs us. 06:45.710 --> 06:47.877 We abuse her at our peril. 06:48.876 --> 06:52.525 As I rowed across the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, 06:52.525 --> 06:53.804 witnessing the many insults 06:53.804 --> 06:55.948 that we're inflicting on our world, 06:55.948 --> 06:59.640 I had plenty of time to think about what's going on. 06:59.640 --> 07:01.288 And I tend to envisage it like 07:01.288 --> 07:03.955 this many tentacled sea monster, 07:04.724 --> 07:06.610 and we can try cutting off the tentacles 07:06.610 --> 07:10.739 of ocean acidification, coral reef destruction, dead zones, 07:10.739 --> 07:13.863 mercury pollution, plastic pollution, overfishing and so on, 07:13.863 --> 07:17.728 but the monster will keep sprouting new tentacles. 07:17.728 --> 07:19.688 What we really need to do is to get to the heart 07:19.688 --> 07:22.074 of the monster, and in my view, 07:22.074 --> 07:25.280 that heart is our tragic and doomed belief 07:25.280 --> 07:29.447 that we're somehow disconnected from and superior to nature. 07:31.435 --> 07:34.207 ^Humanity is currently enacting a narrative that nature 07:34.207 --> 07:37.588 ^is ours to abuse and exploit and pollute as we see fit, 07:37.588 --> 07:40.505 ^forgetting that we're a part of it. 07:40.868 --> 07:45.035 ^We live in the ultimate closed loop system, Planet Earth. 07:45.425 --> 07:47.985 ^We are a part of the web of life, 07:47.985 --> 07:52.152 and when we harm one part of that web, we harm ourselves. 07:53.771 --> 07:57.733 Just as I changed my narrative about what life is all about, 07:57.733 --> 08:01.566 collectively we urgently need a new narrative. 08:01.567 --> 08:03.864 We're heading towards disaster, 08:03.864 --> 08:06.531 and we need a course correction. 08:06.866 --> 08:09.703 We need a new narrative where instead of hubris, 08:09.703 --> 08:12.120 we have humility and harmony. 08:13.864 --> 08:16.501 Instead of rapacious destruction, 08:16.501 --> 08:19.168 we have respect and stewardship. 08:20.108 --> 08:23.652 Instead of disconnection, we have deep connection 08:23.652 --> 08:25.735 to nature, to each other, 08:26.786 --> 08:29.453 to ourselves, and to our future. 08:31.141 --> 08:33.073 I talked about the power of holding a vision 08:33.073 --> 08:35.786 that draws us forward into the future that we want, 08:35.786 --> 08:39.309 so over the next two days, let's create that vision. 08:39.309 --> 08:42.473 A vision of thriving reefs, oceans once again 08:42.473 --> 08:46.640 teeming with life, an ecosystem restored to balance, 08:46.760 --> 08:49.927 beaches once again covered with shells and seaweed, 08:49.927 --> 08:53.177 not drifts of plastic and algal sludge. 08:54.363 --> 08:57.703 We may or we may not be too late to save the oceans, 08:57.703 --> 08:59.889 but as the novelist Raymond Williams said, 08:59.889 --> 09:03.674 "To be truly radical is to make hope possible, 09:03.674 --> 09:06.424 "rather than despair convincing." 09:07.092 --> 09:11.259 So I want to finish by urging you to be truly radical. 09:12.664 --> 09:16.581 My father passed away 12 years and one day ago. 09:17.093 --> 09:19.618 His favorite piece of advice was always 09:19.618 --> 09:23.451 whatever you do, put your whole heart into it. 09:23.908 --> 09:27.016 So I'm asking you over the next two days, 09:27.016 --> 09:28.841 and when you return to your countries, 09:28.841 --> 09:32.444 your organizations, and your projects, how will you put 09:32.444 --> 09:36.111 your whole heart into preserving our oceans? 09:36.888 --> 09:39.864 Because this is urgent, and nothing less 09:39.864 --> 09:42.364 than wholeheartedness will do. 09:42.534 --> 09:43.912 It's time to transition from 09:43.912 --> 09:46.579 the ego system to the ecosystem. 09:47.307 --> 09:50.315 To quote Marshall McLuhan, "There are no passengers 09:50.315 --> 09:53.482 "on Spaceship Earth, we are all crew." 09:54.358 --> 09:57.455 So let's chart a better course, and stop drifting, 09:57.455 --> 10:01.622 start rowing towards the future that we want and need 10:01.958 --> 10:05.802 towards the future health and restoration of our oceans. 10:05.802 --> 10:06.868 Thanks very much. 10:06.868 --> 10:09.285 (applauding) 10:19.654 --> 10:21.358 - Thank you very much, Secretary Kerry, 10:21.358 --> 10:23.027 for your powerful words and for your consistent 10:23.027 --> 10:26.666 leadership in the States, thank you, Cathy, very much, 10:26.666 --> 10:29.951 thank you to our partners and producers here in the room. 10:29.951 --> 10:32.942 My name is Jeff Orlowski and as mentioned, I'm filmmaker. 10:32.942 --> 10:37.109 I got into this field through somewhat of a selfish interest 10:37.587 --> 10:39.209 and pursuit in wanting to travel the world 10:39.209 --> 10:41.764 and to see the planet, and that has then shifted 10:41.764 --> 10:43.693 into a powerful responsibility 10:43.693 --> 10:47.122 that our team feels to show what we've seen. 10:47.122 --> 10:49.483 As mentioned we did a film previously called Chasing Ice 10:49.483 --> 10:51.718 where we went and we set up time lapse cameras 10:51.718 --> 10:53.714 at glaciers around the planet, 10:53.714 --> 10:55.975 documenting the visual evidence 10:55.975 --> 10:59.509 of what is happening around the planet today. 10:59.509 --> 11:02.065 This is one site in Alaska, the Columbia Glacier. 11:02.065 --> 11:03.244 This glacier has retreated so far 11:03.244 --> 11:04.901 it's turned into two separate glaciers, 11:04.901 --> 11:06.100 we've had to move the camera 11:06.100 --> 11:08.419 multiple times to keep up with it. 11:08.419 --> 11:11.732 And in this process, and in working in this field, 11:11.732 --> 11:13.685 I had the good fortune of meeting a man named 11:13.685 --> 11:15.225 Richard Vevers a few years ago. 11:15.225 --> 11:16.432 And Richard, as some of you may know, 11:16.432 --> 11:19.343 was one of the founders of the Catlin Seaview Survey. 11:19.343 --> 11:20.333 They partnered with Google, 11:20.333 --> 11:22.310 they created the Google Underwater Street View 11:22.310 --> 11:23.883 imagery that is available online 11:23.883 --> 11:27.468 and has turned into the largest database, first of all, 11:27.468 --> 11:29.737 it's a base record of coral reefs around the planet, 11:29.737 --> 11:32.650 and on top of it, it's a massive database of VR imagery. 11:32.650 --> 11:34.816 And when I met Richard, he showed me some photographs. 11:34.816 --> 11:37.872 This is a shot that he took at American Samoa, 11:37.872 --> 11:40.432 about a year and a half ago, roughly. 11:40.432 --> 11:42.629 Healthy coral reefs, you can see the blue tips of the coral 11:42.629 --> 11:46.796 continuing to grow, but healthy, thriving, colorful reef. 11:47.140 --> 11:48.646 And then he went back a couple of months later 11:48.646 --> 11:49.788 and he showed us this photograph 11:49.788 --> 11:52.944 of the coral bleaching, in the peak of bleaching. 11:52.944 --> 11:55.417 And then he went back one more time and this is 11:55.417 --> 11:59.584 that same exact reef dead, just a few months afterwards. 11:59.640 --> 12:01.720 Now many of us in this room know the story 12:01.720 --> 12:04.526 of what's going on here, the coral reefs are an ecosystem 12:04.526 --> 12:08.357 that if they get too hot, they turn white, and they die, 12:08.357 --> 12:11.759 it is a very simple, clear, visual story of climate change. 12:11.759 --> 12:13.740 It's an undeniable story of climate change. 12:13.740 --> 12:15.095 This year alone we saw the loss 12:15.095 --> 12:18.694 of about 22% of the Great Barrier Reef, 12:18.694 --> 12:21.096 this could not be a natural phenomenon. 12:21.096 --> 12:22.345 If this was a natural phenomenon, 12:22.345 --> 12:26.035 there would be no Great Barrier Reef at that rate. 12:26.035 --> 12:27.814 So in working with Richard and learning about the story, 12:27.814 --> 12:29.783 our team decided to dedicate our time and effort 12:29.783 --> 12:33.320 to working on this, how do we capture this visually? 12:33.320 --> 12:34.994 How do we reveal it to the public? 12:34.994 --> 12:37.808 How do we get the public to understand what is happening? 12:37.808 --> 12:38.798 So in partnering with Richard, 12:38.798 --> 12:41.227 we designed these time lapse cameras, 12:41.227 --> 12:42.469 underwater time lapse cameras, 12:42.469 --> 12:43.792 pretty much the first of its kind, 12:43.792 --> 12:45.992 it needs to be able to keep itself clean and autonomous 12:45.992 --> 12:48.435 and run for multiple months on end. 12:48.435 --> 12:50.244 And we traveled Richard to all around the planet, 12:50.244 --> 12:53.108 we went to Bermuda, Bahamas, Hawaii, 12:53.108 --> 12:56.272 American Samoa, the Great Barrier Reef, 12:56.272 --> 12:59.026 and we've now been spending the last three years 12:59.026 --> 13:02.746 documenting the changes that are happening to our oceans 13:02.746 --> 13:06.311 with a visual, undeniable evidence of that. 13:06.311 --> 13:08.014 Our team is frantically working on editing 13:08.014 --> 13:10.598 the footage together to put together a feature film 13:10.598 --> 13:13.089 that we're hoping to release early next year. 13:13.089 --> 13:14.501 But we currently do not have a title, 13:14.501 --> 13:16.688 so any suggestions, please, send them up. 13:16.688 --> 13:20.438 But really for me this is an effort to reveal 13:21.031 --> 13:24.626 this story to the public in a way that goes beyond 13:24.626 --> 13:27.139 the charts and the numbers and the science. 13:27.139 --> 13:28.712 It's hard for the average person to understand 13:28.712 --> 13:31.153 what exactly is happening if they can't see it, 13:31.153 --> 13:33.272 if they don't spend their time underwater, 13:33.272 --> 13:35.658 if they don't get to see these places firsthand. 13:35.658 --> 13:38.029 So as filmmakers and as storytellers, 13:38.029 --> 13:39.819 that is our task that we are trying 13:39.819 --> 13:43.569 to add to the community and add to the story. 13:43.722 --> 13:45.634 I have one clip that I'd like to show you, 13:45.634 --> 13:49.801 and for me, this can very often become a depressing story. 13:51.244 --> 13:52.678 If we do not address climate change, 13:52.678 --> 13:55.035 there is no hope for coral reefs. 13:55.035 --> 13:58.878 We expect full ecosystem collapse in about 25 to 35 years 13:58.878 --> 14:02.946 if we do not address the rising rates of carbon dioxide. 14:02.946 --> 14:05.402 So there are many times when our scientists, our partners, 14:05.402 --> 14:07.547 we all feel somewhat down and depressed about the issue, 14:07.547 --> 14:09.860 but the reality is there is hope, 14:09.860 --> 14:12.019 we are seeing a change of the tides. 14:12.019 --> 14:14.657 We're seeing massive action happening, 14:14.657 --> 14:16.447 and as Secretary Kerry said, 14:16.447 --> 14:19.826 we just need more action, and we need it faster. 14:19.826 --> 14:22.254 I'd like to close with this one clip 14:22.254 --> 14:25.632 which is some early footage that we shot in Australia 14:25.632 --> 14:28.132 on our very, very first trip to Heron Island 14:28.132 --> 14:30.032 on the Great Barrier Reef. 14:30.032 --> 14:32.322 And wanting to show a bit more of the uplifting side 14:32.322 --> 14:35.405 of this story as well, so here we go. 14:37.389 --> 14:39.972 (bright music) 16:15.705 --> 16:18.288 (somber music) 16:56.709 --> 16:59.459 (swelling music) 17:12.993 --> 17:15.576 (gentle music) 17:33.049 --> 17:35.466 (applauding) 17:37.458 --> 17:40.019 - Hello, (speaking in foreign language), 17:40.019 --> 17:42.713 what I want to start this presentation out with 17:42.713 --> 17:46.463 is with a short video, can we play it please? 17:50.027 --> 17:52.431 (dramatic music) 17:52.431 --> 17:55.678 Hokulea to go around the world has this enormous potential 17:55.678 --> 17:59.011 to go to 40, 50 countries on the planet, 17:59.724 --> 18:03.141 to be with the great navigators on Earth. 18:04.089 --> 18:06.030 I'm not talking about those who canoe. 18:06.030 --> 18:08.967 I'm talking about those who are doing things 18:08.967 --> 18:12.201 to give kindness and compassion to the Earth 18:12.201 --> 18:14.931 and those who live on it, those navigators. 18:14.931 --> 18:17.348 (epic music) 18:18.671 --> 18:22.232 I would think Hokulea would bring back a thousand stories 18:22.232 --> 18:23.065 of beauty, 18:24.625 --> 18:25.708 of challenge, 18:26.612 --> 18:27.612 of solution. 18:30.591 --> 18:32.079 We're not gonna change the world, 18:32.079 --> 18:34.020 but we're gonna go and build a network 18:34.020 --> 18:36.978 of people around the Earth who are gonna change it 18:36.978 --> 18:40.478 and our job is to help them be successful. 18:48.147 --> 18:50.564 (applauding) 18:53.232 --> 18:56.146 Thank you, thank you for just giving me permission 18:56.146 --> 18:58.530 to be in this amazing room, this amazing space, 18:58.530 --> 19:01.953 and all I'm gonna bring is a short story about the ocean 19:01.953 --> 19:04.250 that speaks about near-extinction 19:04.250 --> 19:06.583 and it talks about recovery. 19:10.483 --> 19:11.316 Okay. 19:13.307 --> 19:16.307 This is our voyaging canoe, Hokulea, 19:17.168 --> 19:21.335 launched in 1975, it is the vehicle of the space ship 19:21.474 --> 19:25.357 of our ancestors that was used, that we believe to discover 19:25.357 --> 19:27.376 all of the largest nation on Earth, 19:27.376 --> 19:29.459 Polynesia in the Pacific. 19:30.001 --> 19:32.285 She made her first voyage in 1976, 19:32.285 --> 19:36.452 its 81st in 600 years, navigated by a man not in Polynesia, 19:37.129 --> 19:40.008 from Micronesia, one of six navigators left on Earth, 19:40.008 --> 19:43.925 and he's the youngest, his name is Mau Piailug. 19:47.409 --> 19:51.492 And then we have been sailing for about 41 years, 19:53.622 --> 19:56.729 and mostly in the Pacific, and we've been working hard 19:56.729 --> 20:00.229 to retain, recover, rediscover our culture 20:00.386 --> 20:03.219 and traditions, to stop extinction 20:04.837 --> 20:08.997 of the great knowledge and the great voyage of the past. 20:08.997 --> 20:11.798 That's what Hokulea is doing, but in the same 42 years, 20:11.798 --> 20:15.952 41 years, there was a whole nother language and conversation 20:15.952 --> 20:17.513 that at the time we started the voyage, 20:17.513 --> 20:20.694 we didn't know the word sustainability. 20:20.694 --> 20:22.770 We didn't know the word climate change, 20:22.770 --> 20:24.271 we didn't know any of these things. 20:24.271 --> 20:28.438 We start to sense as students of navigation whose job is 20:28.622 --> 20:31.191 to watch nature that something's terribly wrong. 20:31.191 --> 20:35.358 That science starts talking about words like acidification, 20:37.689 --> 20:40.689 global warming, dead zones, hypoxia, 20:41.135 --> 20:42.970 these words that we didn't understand. 20:42.970 --> 20:46.624 We knew that somehow this was gonna impact us 20:46.624 --> 20:49.374 as islanders on the island Earth. 20:50.105 --> 20:54.272 And so that there was this need to feel that we need 20:54.538 --> 20:58.214 to participate, driven by our principles and our values, 20:58.214 --> 21:00.988 that we needed to do something to help 21:00.988 --> 21:04.009 protect the ocean, to protect the Earth. 21:04.009 --> 21:07.106 And that was a genesis for the (mumbling) voyage. 21:07.106 --> 21:10.308 Essentially, you cannot protect what you don't understand, 21:10.308 --> 21:12.975 and you won't if you don't care. 21:13.141 --> 21:17.037 And so we make a long story short, we trained six years, 21:17.037 --> 21:19.204 starting in 2008, we left, 21:20.680 --> 21:23.930 let go of the lines in Honolulu in 2014 21:24.542 --> 21:26.359 to take a voyage that we weren't sure 21:26.359 --> 21:28.600 what it was going to take us to. 21:28.600 --> 21:31.081 We weren't sure what we were gonna find. 21:31.081 --> 21:33.664 What we found is what you know. 21:34.248 --> 21:36.347 We found is what you projected. 21:36.347 --> 21:38.680 We found what you predicted. 21:38.693 --> 21:41.276 The oceans is changing rapidly. 21:42.309 --> 21:44.642 It's not in trouble, we are. 21:44.825 --> 21:48.724 And that the recognition, the clear recognition, 21:48.724 --> 21:50.307 oceans die, we die. 21:51.759 --> 21:54.092 And serious, serious things. 21:55.223 --> 21:57.973 That we started to recognize that 21:58.091 --> 22:00.840 if climate change and sustainability, 22:00.840 --> 22:03.682 these issues are the most important issues 22:03.682 --> 22:06.756 of the 21st century, and the most important solution 22:06.756 --> 22:08.739 is to protect the oceans. 22:08.739 --> 22:11.867 And that is prerequisite, there is no other option. 22:11.867 --> 22:14.117 That's how dangerous it is. 22:14.667 --> 22:16.588 What we've found is all these things, 22:16.588 --> 22:20.171 we found pollution that is just nauseating. 22:20.302 --> 22:24.469 We found coral reefs that are bleached and dead, we found, 22:27.691 --> 22:30.953 we found many, many things including going to small 22:30.953 --> 22:34.786 Pacific island nations where their only option 22:35.298 --> 22:37.762 is to sell their homeland, their ancestry, 22:37.762 --> 22:40.416 their link to their past, and go live someplace else 22:40.416 --> 22:44.046 in somebody else's home that they don't know. 22:44.046 --> 22:47.935 I'm here for those people, the ones that don't have voice, 22:47.935 --> 22:51.011 those have so much at risk, and so little support, 22:51.011 --> 22:54.178 the ones that need this room the most. 22:54.852 --> 22:59.019 What we also found in the worldwide voyage was a movement. 22:59.039 --> 23:03.039 We found extraordinary people everywhere we went 23:03.326 --> 23:07.493 that are acting out in almost an innate, instinctual need 23:08.701 --> 23:12.653 to protect their home, their place, their community, 23:12.653 --> 23:15.571 the future of their children, they do it many different ways 23:15.571 --> 23:18.217 whether it's on a coral reef, whether it's in a water shed, 23:18.217 --> 23:21.037 whether it's in streams, whether it's in the halls 23:21.037 --> 23:23.414 of the university system, whether it's in a classroom, 23:23.414 --> 23:25.774 whether it's in their backyard. 23:25.774 --> 23:29.441 We found everywhere on the worldwide voyage, 23:31.422 --> 23:33.708 this light of hope that's at the core 23:33.708 --> 23:36.924 of thousands and thousands of people that are simply doing 23:36.924 --> 23:40.174 what they can to make a contribution to 23:43.111 --> 23:44.444 a better planet. 23:45.042 --> 23:47.585 And it is in that movement that there is hope, 23:47.585 --> 23:51.335 but this movement is not connected, so again, 23:52.197 --> 23:55.980 this voyage is driven by the values that we believe 23:55.980 --> 23:57.316 and those values were taught. 23:57.316 --> 23:59.666 Permit me to tell you one story 23:59.666 --> 24:02.249 about an extraordinary teacher. 24:06.118 --> 24:07.932 It's the navigator, Mau Piailug, 24:07.932 --> 24:10.518 that sailed from Hawaii in 1976. 24:10.518 --> 24:12.351 It's also our teacher. 24:13.242 --> 24:17.409 Our teacher that came for three and a half decades 24:17.864 --> 24:21.781 to help teach us before he passed away in 2010. 24:22.894 --> 24:25.539 And one single story that I will put out, 24:25.539 --> 24:29.706 I sailed with him in 1980, I was the apprentice navigator, 24:29.998 --> 24:32.310 he was on board, we sailed all the way 24:32.310 --> 24:34.559 up to Tahiti and back, we kind of somehow bumped 24:34.559 --> 24:36.565 into islands and we found our way in the weeds, 24:36.565 --> 24:40.102 got back to Hawaii, and he was packing his bag 24:40.102 --> 24:43.185 for the first time in over 26 months, 24:43.802 --> 24:45.328 that he stayed with us the whole time 24:45.328 --> 24:47.073 and never went back to Micronesia. 24:47.073 --> 24:50.573 And taught us, he said, "Nainoa, sit down. 24:51.429 --> 24:53.120 "I want to talk to you." 24:53.120 --> 24:55.120 He said, "You did okay." 24:56.562 --> 24:59.544 But he said, "I give you everything, 24:59.544 --> 25:01.509 "and the ocean showed you everything, 25:01.509 --> 25:03.666 "but it'll take you 20 years to see." 25:03.666 --> 25:06.293 He said, "Hawaii needs a navigator. 25:06.293 --> 25:08.611 "Send your son, you're too old." 25:08.611 --> 25:10.661 And he said, "Because I was selected 25:10.661 --> 25:13.244 "at age one by my grandfather," 25:13.756 --> 25:17.006 put in tide pools to play in the ocean, 25:17.128 --> 25:19.930 to play in the air, to play with the animals, 25:19.930 --> 25:21.347 to play on the island. 25:21.347 --> 25:23.349 He was standing at an old age of five 25:23.349 --> 25:26.332 on the voyage in canoe, his grandfather's voyage in canoe. 25:26.332 --> 25:27.976 And he'd tell me, "You know, Nainoa, 25:27.976 --> 25:31.410 "when the wave come, the wave make the canoe go up and down, 25:31.410 --> 25:34.408 "and the canoe go up and down, it makes me sick. 25:34.408 --> 25:37.225 "My grandfather tied my hands with coconut sinew, 25:37.225 --> 25:41.043 "threw me overboard and dragged me behind the canoe." 25:41.043 --> 25:44.097 He said, "because my grandfather, this is out of love, 25:44.097 --> 25:48.264 "would put me in the ocean to pull me into the wave." 25:48.989 --> 25:52.867 He said, "When I go into the wave, I become the wave. 25:52.867 --> 25:55.757 "When I become the wave, then I'm navigator," 25:55.757 --> 25:59.090 that deep, deep connection to the ocean. 25:59.759 --> 26:02.259 And then he said, he said that 26:05.541 --> 26:08.624 you need to help find the navigators. 26:08.707 --> 26:11.040 So when I come in this room, 26:11.884 --> 26:14.748 somewhat intimidated but honored to be here, 26:14.748 --> 26:17.665 that this room is so extraordinary. 26:17.937 --> 26:20.691 Remember those thousands of people that we met, 26:20.691 --> 26:22.868 there's probably millions of people around the world 26:22.868 --> 26:26.085 that want to act on behalf of the Earth, 26:26.085 --> 26:30.252 but many times, they don't exactly know how to be connected. 26:30.698 --> 26:32.115 This room, to me, 26:34.775 --> 26:38.912 is so powerful because every one of you went into the ocean. 26:38.912 --> 26:41.483 Every one of you went into the wave. 26:41.483 --> 26:43.533 Every one of you have become the wave 26:43.533 --> 26:46.366 to allow humanity to have a place. 26:47.216 --> 26:49.034 That it can be focused on a powerful vision, 26:49.034 --> 26:51.386 that can be focused on a sail plan 26:51.386 --> 26:53.545 that is gonna connect everybody 26:53.545 --> 26:57.128 and can focus on even your commitment maps. 26:58.529 --> 27:02.096 That map has hundreds on it now, it's gonna be millions. 27:02.096 --> 27:06.263 'Cause this room has figured out the way to navigate 27:06.715 --> 27:10.777 a direction and a vision that humanity can tie to. 27:10.777 --> 27:14.944 That's why I'm so honored, and Mau, if he were here, 27:16.633 --> 27:19.438 he would say, because when Mau died, 27:19.438 --> 27:23.605 there was the belief that that was the point of extinction. 27:24.240 --> 27:28.073 That's when all the great navigators are gone. 27:28.602 --> 27:30.945 When Mau died, we felt it, we smelt it, 27:30.945 --> 27:33.862 we know what extinction feels like. 27:34.181 --> 27:37.348 But if Mau were here, he would say no. 27:39.161 --> 27:41.411 The navigators still exist. 27:41.760 --> 27:45.683 The great navigators, the ones that are gonna change 27:45.683 --> 27:48.850 the face of the Earth, and I know Mau. 27:49.087 --> 27:52.337 He would go humbly, slowly, and quietly 27:53.122 --> 27:56.539 up to the Secretary of State, John Kerry, 27:57.861 --> 28:00.778 he would hold and hug him, and say, 28:01.597 --> 28:03.669 thank you for being a great navigator 28:03.669 --> 28:06.664 of the most important voyage that we need to be on, 28:06.664 --> 28:10.331 and thank you for taking care of the oceans, 28:10.724 --> 28:12.989 which he loved the most, thank you very much. 28:12.989 --> 28:15.406 (applauding) 28:30.060 --> 28:31.500 - Well it's hard to know what to say 28:31.500 --> 28:35.167 after listening to these inspiring speakers. 28:35.203 --> 28:37.764 I think they've really set the stage for us 28:37.764 --> 28:41.254 and they have challenged us to do everything 28:41.254 --> 28:45.337 that we can do over the next two days and beyond. 28:45.774 --> 28:49.941 And so now we're going to hear about some solutions 28:50.408 --> 28:53.768 on safeguarding ocean places in our next panel. 28:53.768 --> 28:55.886 So thank you very much for being here, 28:55.886 --> 28:58.469 and for actively participating. 29:00.121 --> 29:02.538 (applauding)