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Beyond the UN Ocean Conference: A Captain's Call to Action - Captain Paul Watson, from Paris
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Captain Paul Watson speaks with us from Paris about his experiences at the UN Ocean Conference, meetings with global leaders including President Macron, and his continued ocean conservation efforts after his release from a Greenland prison.
• The UN Ocean Conference yielded a major victory with 64 countries ratifying the High Seas Treaty, providing additional legal protection for ocean interventions
• Captain Paul met with French President Macron, the Mayor of Reykjavik, the President of French Polynesia, and Brazil's Environment Minister to discuss marine conservation
• Whaling in Iceland has been paused for three consecutive years, signaling a potential permanent end to the practice as public opinion shifts
• Deep sea mining threatens to create devastating sediment clouds lasting 3-6 years that could suffocate marine life across hundreds of square miles
• Krill overfishing in the Southern Ocean by factory ships from Norway, Japan and Russia is starving penguin and whale populations while producing cheap feed for factory farms
• The Captain Paul Watson Foundation is planning direct interventions against krill fishing operations, creating a new TV series called "Krill Wars" to raise awareness
• Commercial fishing operations globally are sustained by approximately $90 billion in government subsidies, not by actual market profitability
• The foundation's upcoming projects include anti-poaching operations in the Mediterranean, protecting turtles in Mayotte, and opposing seismic testing off Uruguay
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Chapters
1. Introduction to Resilient Earth Radio (00:00:00)
2. Meet Captain Paul Watson (00:01:50)
3. UN Ocean Conference Highlights (00:03:58)
4. Iceland Whaling Pause and Mayor Support (00:06:37)
5. Deep Sea Mining Dangers (00:16:10)
6. Fighting Krill Overfishing (00:21:53)
7. Japanese Whaling and Political Pressure (00:31:17)
8. Corruption Behind Global Fishing Subsidies (00:40:30)
9. Upcoming Projects and Foundation Work (00:49:27)
10. We Are The Ocean: Closing Thoughts (00:57:36)
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