Seas the Day: A New Narrative for the Ocean

It's time for a new narrative for the ocean, one that reflects
current scientific knowledge and acknowledges innovative new
partnerships and solutions that center the ocean in our future. In
this program, Jane Lubchenco, Professor of Marine Biology at Oregon
State University and with expertise in the ocean, climate change,
and interactions between the environment and human well-being,
talks about the two current dominant narratives for the ocean are
anchored in the past. The older one considers the ocean to be so
vast, bountiful, and resilient that it is simply too big to fail.
This first narrative drives pollution and over-exploitation of
resources. A second, more recent narrative is that the ocean is now
so depleted, polluted, and disrupted, and the drivers of those
outcomes are so powerful and complex, that the ocean is simply too
big to fix. A third, new narrative is emerging, based on scientific
findings, existing solutions, and innovative partnerships and
policies. This new narrative acknowledges that the ocean is central
to a safe, clean, healthy, just, and prosperous future. This new
narrative tells us that the ocean is neither too big to fail, nor
is it too big to fix. But it is too important and too central to
our future to ignore. Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate Lectures"
[Public Affairs] [Science] [Show ID: 40427]