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Since The Middle Of The 20th Century, More Has Been Learnt About The Ocean Than During All Preceding Human History; At The Same Time, More Has Been Lost.

People Still Do Not Understand That A Live Fish Is More Valuable Than A Dead One, And That Destructive Fishing Techniques Are Taking A Wrecking Ball To Biodiversity.

When Some People Look At A Shrimp They Think, "hmm. Delicious." When I Look At A Shrimp I Think, "you're A Miracle, Absolutely Incredible. Your Ancestors Have Gone Back Hundreds Of Millions Of Years." And To Develop A Thing As Simple As A Shrimp Cocktail, You Have To Calculate The Hundreds Of Millions Of Years That Have Preceded That Moment Where You're Sitting There With Your Sauce And Fork Poised.

We Don't Have To Be That Greedy Generation That Just Continued To Take Down The Underpinnings Of What Makes The Planet Work In Our Favor.

We Still Have The Illusion That The Ocean Will Recover. That Even If We Do Have To Lose Sharks, People Don't Understand Why This Matters. The Evidence Is In Front Of Us, And We Fail To Take It In And Say, "now I Get It. Now I Understand."