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Can we create a healthy and clean economy?

Climate 1 at the Commonwealth Club is at the forefront of the global debate about energy, economy, and the environment.

Bringing together the brightest and most provocative leaders of our time,

Climate One is the place where big ideas get heard.

It's our future. It's time to come together.

I want again to welcome you to the Commonwealth Club of California.

I am Ann Clark, a member of the Environment and Natural Resources Forum and your chair today.

We are also welcoming our listening audience, and we invite everyone to visit us online at commonwealth club.org.

And we are also now being video filmed, and so you may see this presentation tonight on video.

And I'd like to thank Greg Dalton for arranging that for us and our wonderful camera person who is in the

back standing on that precarious chair for that.

Tonight we have a very, very special program.

It's a program about the national ocean policy and what is happening in terms of our policy as a nation towards our oceans.

What's so interesting for me about this program is that I actually never even imagined that we didn't have an ocean policy,

nor did I ever really know how extensive the oceans are that

the United States have. Our ocean territory of the United States is actually more than our land

territory, and we have more ocean territory than any other country in the world. So we have a vast influence on our oceans,

and yet we've never had a national ocean policy. Your speakers tonight are going to talk

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