Explores the tumultuous relationship between the Gulf of Mexico and the conservationists determined to protect it. | dG1fWGdfendlaE1QU3M
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00:00This is one of the hardest-working bodies of water on this planet.
00:06It is not only productive, but it's a very, very special place.
00:11It plays a really important role for a lot of people, and it deserves and needs our attention.
00:17We want to keep this ecosystem.
00:20We're going to have to think differently about the Gulf of Mexico.
00:23Many predictions about climate change and sea level rise indicate that we're going to
00:26have more intense storms.
00:29And we've seen that, but now we don't even need a hurricane to have damages caused by
00:33the Gulf.
00:34I grew up in this water.
00:36She's kind, and she's also brutal at the same time.
00:39When Hurricane I came through, it silted over 80% of the ocean reefs in the bay.
00:43Some of those areas have never came back, and they won't, in my opinion.
00:46In the last 30 years, the ocean has come to a tipping point.
00:50It's overexploited.
00:51So we need to take care of it, because if we don't do it, we're going to have a serious
00:55problem in feeding the whole world.
00:58We're playing at a different scale, and so when we make mistakes, that scales too.
01:02You can't remove that much seafood.
01:05You can't produce that much energy.
01:07You can't have that much cargo moving through a system and give nothing back.
01:14This is one of those places where we really can make a difference.
01:18It's not that it can't be done.
01:20It's that it's going to take all of us in order to get it done.