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We’re Keeping the Ocean Wild — and You Can Join Us | Sylvia A. Earle | TED

In 2009, marine biologist Sylvia Earle stood on the TED stage and made a wish: to build a global network of “Hope Spots” and protect the ocean before it’s too late. Seventeen years later, she’s back to report on what’s happened since — and the picture is both more urgent and more hopeful than you…

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In 2009, marine biologist Sylvia Earle stood on the TED stage and made a wish: to build a global network of “Hope Spots” and protect the ocean before it’s too late. Seventeen years later, she’s back to report on what’s happened since — and the picture is both more urgent and more hopeful than you might expect. From 100,000 fur seals saved from near-extinction to coral reefs rebuilt clam by clam, Earle says we already know exactly what needs to be done; the only thing left is to find the will to do it. (Recorded at TED2026 on April 17, 2026)

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  1. @GamingEpochs

    June 8, 2026 at 11:03 am

    There is always hope!

  2. @alwayslearning2004

    June 8, 2026 at 11:09 am

    I just have the need to say the oceans are beautiful and healthy as ever. Stop with wanting to fix something that is NOT broken. Strive to change and educate yourself to better the world. Nature is AMAZING and self-healing.

    • @Avarice7D

      June 8, 2026 at 11:36 am

      just ask the dodo.

    • @hoon-h5g

      June 9, 2026 at 1:59 am

      Not if the ocean is polluted faster than it is healing

  3. @user_user1337

    June 8, 2026 at 11:11 am

    Nope, it is too late now… sorry.

    • @alwayslearning2004

      June 8, 2026 at 11:39 am

      Doom and gloom sells and if it makes you happy to believe that I believe in my statement.

    • @user_user1337

      June 8, 2026 at 12:22 pm

      @alwayslearning2004 I’d rather spend the last years or maybe decades partying. If we are not going to go extinct when I die: fine. Other people with more time on their hands saved the Planet.
      If we are going to go extinct when I die: I never have procreated and I will have then spent my life what I loved doing most, and did not worry about anything my last 40 years.
      I’d is your choice in this Pascalian wager.

  4. @ExistentialWolf

    June 8, 2026 at 11:43 am

    That’s where the sewer pipes come from 😀

  5. @JCMills55

    June 8, 2026 at 1:34 pm

    Oh geez a bunch of tree huggers.

    • @treytate10

      June 8, 2026 at 2:52 pm

      @JCMills55 you sound like a very unhappy person lol

  6. @worldbrotherhoodglobal

    June 8, 2026 at 2:50 pm

    The Shinnecock Bay example proves that the most powerful solutions aren’t hidden in high-tech corporate software, but in restoring the raw, foundational networks of nature itself. Industrial scale exploitation breaks the baseline chemistry of our planet, and trying to fix it with sterile metrics is a loop of failure. Real structural resilience begins by stepping back and protecting the real-world groundwork.

  7. @Mr_Self_Bet

    June 9, 2026 at 10:18 am

    Excellent video. Watching this completely changed my perspective. I make videos on similar topics.
    It’s all very interesting.There is always hope!

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