Protect Our Oceans: Regulating Human Activity To Reduce Poverty And Conserve Marine Environments
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Joining us today is John Virdin, the Director of the Ocean and Coastal Policy Program at Duke University. He joins us today to discuss marine conservation, and how humans affect ocean environments.
John has over twenty years of experience advising and analyzing government policies that regulate human use of the oceans – with a particular interest in ocean policy that reduces poverty. Combining his passion for policy and love for marine life, John has played a major role in refining political approaches to ocean-related issues…
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In this episode, you can hear John talk about:
- What it means to reduce poverty from an oceanic perspective.
- How the jurisdiction of the ocean is designated.
- The "bad things" that happen in the ocean on a regular basis.
- The treaties that are being considered by global governments to address marine issues.
Marine conservation affects so much more than you may think – and a lot of it can be controlled with good policies. Join the conversation now to learn about what John and experts like him are doing to make the world a better place!
Click here to find out more about John Virdin and his work!
Episode also available on Apple Podcast: http://apple.co/30PvU9C
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, my interest, my passion for a long time, has been ocean policy, you know, |
| 0:04.8 | the rules of the game that governments make for how people use the oceans and interact with them, |
| 0:09.6 | how we can protect them. And I'm particularly interested in in ocean policy to reduce poverty, |
| 0:15.2 | ocean policy to generate more jobs and food throughout the world, but particularly for communities |
| 0:20.0 | that have fewer options. What kind of, you know, quote, a bad things happen and where do they tend to |
| 0:26.1 | happen, you know, where no one is in control or do they happen in certain daily weeks of certain |
| 0:31.7 | governments, which makes it harder to tell them, don't do that. Yeah, I mean, I kind of think of |
| 0:36.3 | the bad things in the ocean as under two big headings. And I got this from Jeremy Jackson, |
| 0:41.6 | pretty famous marine ecologist who said it kind of boils down to people taking out too much good |
| 0:47.7 | stuff from the ocean and putting too much bad stuff in. Increased stress is linked with teeth |
| 0:52.8 | grinding and clenching, which causes poor sleep, jaw pain and headaches. Did you know that one |
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