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Philippe Cousteau Jr.

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  1. “And with a simple dream that my grandfather and father shared with me growing up, that every child born has the right to walk on healthy soil, to breathe fresh air and drink clean water in peace and security. That's a vision that I hope we all share for our children. And the only path to achieve that vision takes us on a winding road through the wonders and opportunities of the ocean.”

    2024-11-05 · Masters of Scale · Rapid fire fun: Slutty Vegan’s Pinky Cole + ocean educator Philippe Cousteau Jr., live from Masters of Scale Summit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “It has become an impotent byword for doing less harm. You are some of the smartest people in the world forging ahead with AI and social media. You're creating enormous wealth and solving seemingly intractable problems, but none of that matters if we don't solve this problem. So instead of sustaining the way the world is with collapsing oceans, runaway, climate change, disappearing biodiversity conflicts, illegal migration, driven by resource degradation, we should be investing in the technologies and innovations that regenerate and rebuild our world. Help me help you. We are headed Pal Mell towards three degrees of warming and scaling solutions is a race against time that all of our lives depend on.”

    2024-11-05 · Masters of Scale · Rapid fire fun: Slutty Vegan’s Pinky Cole + ocean educator Philippe Cousteau Jr., live from Masters of Scale Summit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  3. “Six years ago, my wife and I co hosted a show for Discovery Shark Week. We returned to the Bikini Atoll where in the 1950s United States detonated 23 nuclear bombs destroying everything above and beneath the surface of the ocean for miles around. The worst fire and brimstone that humanity could engineer. And yet because of the radiation it became a marine protected area, like a national park in the ocean for the last 60 years. And when we returned there, the thriving coral, the schools of 70 and 80 reef sharks swirling around us was like nothing I had ever seen. We had destroyed that area, but nature is resilient if we give it a chance. So if you walk away with one message from this discussion, I wanted to be the sustainability is bullshit.”

    2024-11-05 · Masters of Scale · Rapid fire fun: Slutty Vegan’s Pinky Cole + ocean educator Philippe Cousteau Jr., live from Masters of Scale Summit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  4. “That is where the opportunity lies. What my family has been warning about longer than any other, the threats to climate and biodiversity that are now coming home to all of us are also wake-up calls to the enormous potential that exists if we invest in the systems that make life on this planet possible.”

    2024-11-05 · Masters of Scale · Rapid fire fun: Slutty Vegan’s Pinky Cole + ocean educator Philippe Cousteau Jr., live from Masters of Scale Summit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  5. “So, I don't want to continue talking about interplanetary lives. I want to close by speaking about your lives, the lives of your children and of your grandchildren. Are the lives that we should be talking about? Theirs are the lives that we can see, that we can touch, the lives that we should do everything we can to protect. Now, while near-Earth space operations does have value in learning about and protecting this planet, the manned space exploration is hubris. The gulf between investments in ocean and our investment in space is insultingly enormous.”

    2024-11-05 · Masters of Scale · Rapid fire fun: Slutty Vegan’s Pinky Cole + ocean educator Philippe Cousteau Jr., live from Masters of Scale Summit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  6. “I turned my head to face the other direction, to stare into space. I love the mystery of the universe, but I discovered that the beauty isn't out there, it's down here with all of us. It was among the strongest feelings of grief I have ever encountered. Every day we are confronted with the knowledge of further destruction of Earth at our hands. My trip to space was supposed to be a celebration. Instead, it felt like a funeral.”

    2024-11-05 · Masters of Scale · Rapid fire fun: Slutty Vegan’s Pinky Cole + ocean educator Philippe Cousteau Jr., live from Masters of Scale Summit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  7. “Frankly, space gets to cheat because the reality space is nothing like the movies, but Hollywood is seized on this fascination of space and space colonization and created all these fictional narratives about how interstellar exploration is possible and can save the human race. It's absolute nonsense. We sit here on this extraordinary miracle of nature. William Shatner, I want to paraphrase him. You probably know he did the Blue Origin flight. And when he came back, this is what he said.”

    2024-11-05 · Masters of Scale · Rapid fire fun: Slutty Vegan’s Pinky Cole + ocean educator Philippe Cousteau Jr., live from Masters of Scale Summit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  8. “I always say that the Gene Roddenberry has a lot to answer for. And I'm friends with Rodd, his son, who, by the way, is a big ocean guy. And listen, I grew up on TNG. Any TNG fans in the audience? Right? Come on. Picard, the best. But the biggest challenge that the ocean faces is the fact that it's out of sight and out of mind. And frankly, we've been dreaming about the stars for millennia. And the ocean has been a black abyss, below which about 600 feet it's pretty much dark all the time. And it was really only 70 years ago when my grandfather invented scuba diving, underwater cameras and launched his eponymous television series and films that the world got a glimpse of the ocean. It's been a single human lifetime we've truly been exploring the ocean.”

    2024-11-05 · Masters of Scale · Rapid fire fun: Slutty Vegan’s Pinky Cole + ocean educator Philippe Cousteau Jr., live from Masters of Scale Summit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  9. “Financial markets regenerating and rebuilding coral reefs like our company Voice Eventures can drive untold billions of dollars of investment because governments and individuals around the world are realizing that trillions of dollars of real estate, hundreds of millions of lives are on the line and protecting those investments and the lives are an economic opportunity that is worth hundreds of billions of dollars. It cuts across innovation and growth in virtually every industry you can think of the opportunity for investment in the ocean and extraordinary returns is enormous. On the flip side, the consequences are catastrophic. Just under the wire ish.”

    2024-11-05 · Masters of Scale · Rapid fire fun: Slutty Vegan’s Pinky Cole + ocean educator Philippe Cousteau Jr., live from Masters of Scale Summit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  10. “A really important question because, as I mentioned just a minute ago, this isn't just about protecting the ocean for the ocean's sake. This is about recognizing that whether or not you care about climate change or altruism, whatever it is, the ocean is an enormous opportunity to make money and to secure our future at the same time. Listen, feeding the world, global seafood markets are expected to reach close to a trillion dollars by 2030 with annual growth over 9%. It currently only 50% of that is based on aquaculture, the opportunity to grow and feed food and feed people in a sustainable, regenerative way is enormous. Materials and construction markets could be turned on their heads through plastic alternatives from seaweed from companies like Sui or environmentally carbon negative concrete pioneered by folks like Partana. Energy, ocean-based energy, pharmaceuticals. Think that AZT, one of the early treatments of AIDS, was derived from Caribbean reef sponge.”

    2024-11-05 · Masters of Scale · Rapid fire fun: Slutty Vegan’s Pinky Cole + ocean educator Philippe Cousteau Jr., live from Masters of Scale Summit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  11. “Africa. We are fishing out communities that's driving illegal migration into Europe or driving those people into the arms of the terrorist organization. The oceans are critical, and if we don't invest in them, we pay the price.”

    2024-11-05 · Masters of Scale · Rapid fire fun: Slutty Vegan’s Pinky Cole + ocean educator Philippe Cousteau Jr., live from Masters of Scale Summit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  12. “I want to give you one quick example. In the 1990s, Somalia was a failed state. Without a navy to protect its nearshore fisheries, illegal fishing fleets from Russia, China, the EU began pulling out hundreds of millions of dollars with the fish every year. And the fishermen who had made their livings had fed their children off those fisheries were now destitute. They armed themselves to fight off these illegal fishing boats and got money in return for those ships. The light bulb went off, Al-Qaeda in the Maghreb, al-Shabaab began arming these fishermen and enabling this piracy that has cost the global economy trillions of dollars, tens of thousands of lives over the last 30 years. There's a Department of Defense report that summarizes it simply at the end and says for a few million dollars of fisheries conservation investment, all of that could have been avoided. And now it's happening again in Senegal and West Africa.”

    2024-11-05 · Masters of Scale · Rapid fire fun: Slutty Vegan’s Pinky Cole + ocean educator Philippe Cousteau Jr., live from Masters of Scale Summit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  13. “Is a victim, it is also our greatest ally. And this isn't just about protecting coral reefs. I warned Bob, I go a little long on this one. It's not about protecting coral reefs, whales, or fish for the sake of nature. It's about doing it for the sake of humanity.”

    2024-11-05 · Masters of Scale · Rapid fire fun: Slutty Vegan’s Pinky Cole + ocean educator Philippe Cousteau Jr., live from Masters of Scale Summit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  14. “So it should be a bluer future, not a greener future. We have a bias to green and land because we're terrestrial creatures. I get that. But instead, we should be thinking blue because nothing exists. No green exists without the blue. And to paraphrase a famous quote of politics then, think about this. It's the ocean, stupid. Here's the exciting part. The ocean is also a source of extraordinary economic potential and growth. It's our largest carbon sink. It creates most of our oxygen, provides food for billions of people. The Amazon may get the headlines, and it is critically important ecosystem. But it roughly absorbs about 25% of the world's carbon. The ocean is 60%. We keep on planting trees, but mangrove forests absorb 6 to 8 times more carbon than a terrestrial forest. They benefit coastlines. They provide nurseries for fisheries that feed millions of people. So while we see the headlines about bleaching coral and collapsing fisheries and the like, while the ocean”

    2024-11-05 · Masters of Scale · Rapid fire fun: Slutty Vegan’s Pinky Cole + ocean educator Philippe Cousteau Jr., live from Masters of Scale Summit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  15. “It's a great question. And let's level set here, everybody, right? The greatest threat to our planet is climate change, not AI. Climate change is an ocean problem. I'm going to say that again climate change is an ocean problem, and therefore we cannot solve the climate crisis without restoring and protecting the ocean period. And all too often we look at terrestrial solutions like planting trees, but honestly, trees.”

    2024-11-05 · Masters of Scale · Rapid fire fun: Slutty Vegan’s Pinky Cole + ocean educator Philippe Cousteau Jr., live from Masters of Scale Summit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  16. “Million souls, but what about the remaining 99.5% of the Earth's population? And then, of course, there's the issue of what we do when we get there, terraforming, not possible. Who wants to live on Mars and eat potatoes for the rest of your life? Not me. So we need to be thinking about how we invest in our oceans as the source of solving our problems. Was perfect. Wow You beat the back. I beat”

    2024-11-05 · Masters of Scale · Rapid fire fun: Slutty Vegan’s Pinky Cole + ocean educator Philippe Cousteau Jr., live from Masters of Scale Summit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  17. “So, listen, it won't be a surprise. Of course, I'm a huge advocate of ocean exploration, and I believe it should be our focus, but it is not, as you pointed out, because much of the oceans still remains a mystery. It surprises a lot of people. You know, we've mapped every crater on Mars, but have only explored about 20% of the ocean. So that is our real frontier. But we're investing billions of dollars in the belief that in some magical future of space exploration for humans or that we can achieve somehow multi-planetary life, it is nonsense. From many perspectives, scientific, technological, economic, biological, the hurdles to any serious human exploration of space are enormous, and the rewards are paltry. Three years round trip to Mars, 10 times that to Europa, 500 billion of flights, even if we send a spaceship every single day for the next thousand years, we'd maybe save a few.”

    2024-11-05 · Masters of Scale · Rapid fire fun: Slutty Vegan’s Pinky Cole + ocean educator Philippe Cousteau Jr., live from Masters of Scale Summit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT