When I was a kid, Jacques Cousteau was my hero and the person who inspired me to become … - Enric Sala

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There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.

Enric Sala

When I was a kid, Jacques Cousteau was my hero and the person who inspired me to become an underwater explorer. I have many other people who inspired me after him, but he is still my all-time hero.

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I was studying the impacts of fishing on ocean life, while the places that I loved so much continued to decline: less and smaller fish, less corals, and more microbes. I found myself writing the obituary of nature with increasing precision. Unsatisfied and frustrated, I felt like a doctor telling the patient how she is going to die, with excruciating detail. If I were that patient, I would have fired myself and looked for a doctor who would look for a solution.

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The ocean is like a checking account where everybody withdraws but nobody makes a deposit. This is what's happening because of overfishing.

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When I was six, all I dreamt about was becoming a diver on Jacques Cousteau's boat, the famous Calypso.

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Most of the reefs [around Christmas Island] are dead, most of the corals are dead, overgrown by algae, and most of the fish are smaller than the pencils we use to count them.

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The seas need their own Kyoto Protocol.

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