DJ White: "Ocean Effectivism" | The Great Simplification #51
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
Nate Hagens
4.8 • 555 Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2022
⏱️ 118 minutes
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Summary
Show Summary:
On this episode, Nate is joined by Eco-interventionist and long time friend DJ White. DJ is not necessarily a household name, but has been instrumental in successful environmental interventions - primarily for the oceans - for the last four decades. The list of his behind-the-scenes accomplishments is long, but today he joins Nate to describe how to be effective in change-making and outline ways that current activist efforts could be improved. He also shares his own profound experiences with some of Earth's most intelligent creatures and how these cetacean friends shaped his life's work.
About DJ White:
DJ White is a co-founder of Greenpeace International and founder of EarthTrust. He has played a leading role in protecting dolphins, whales, sea turtles, and countless other marine animals, including being the driving force behind the transition to more dolphin-friendly tuna, stopping widespread use of ocean drift nets in the 1980s, successfully stopping a national dolphin drive kill, and breaking the deadlock in capping the Kuwait oil fires.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The Great Simplification with Nate Higgins. |
| 0:06.0 | That's me. |
| 0:07.7 | On this show, we try to explore and simplify what's happening with energy, the economy, |
| 0:14.3 | the environment, in our society. |
| 0:17.3 | Together with scientists, experts, and leaders, this show is about understanding the bird's-eye view of how everything fits together, where we go from here and what we can do about it as a society and as individuals. |
| 0:32.5 | I would like to introduce my longtime friend and colleague DJ White. |
| 0:39.6 | DJ is probably not a household name. |
| 0:42.5 | He was a co-founder of Greenpeace International and started earthtrust.org 40 years ago. |
| 0:51.1 | The first few minutes of this podcast, I talk about a long list of environmental |
| 0:55.7 | activist accomplishments, especially in the oceans that DJ is responsible for and thankful for. |
| 1:06.4 | DJ is an interesting character. I met him as a commenter on the oil drum 15 years ago. |
| 1:13.3 | We became friends. He co-wrote the three textbooks for my Reality 101 class. |
| 1:21.7 | What I find so fascinating about DJ is he thinks differently than most people. He was responsible for the |
| 1:30.3 | tall, which stands for through an alien lens, uh, in our books because he does think in an alien way. |
| 1:38.3 | He connects things that wouldn't normally be connected and integrates, uh, all the different topics of our current situation. |
| 1:47.9 | He's a very colorful, though shy human being. |
| 1:51.9 | And I think you will enjoy this first conversation with my friend DJ White. |
| 2:11.1 | Thank you. my friend, DJ White. DJ White. |
| 2:12.8 | Hey there, Nate. |
| 2:15.8 | Good to see you. |
| 2:16.6 | Yeah, we've finally doing this. |
| 2:19.7 | So you and I have not talked much the last couple years, but I hazard to guess without sounding |
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