Click on any phrase to play the video at that point.Close I want
to talk about penguins today. But first, I want to start by
saying that we need a new operating system, for the oceans and
for the Earth. When I came to the Galapagos 40 years ago, there
were 3,000 people that lived in the Galapagos. Now there are
over 30,000. There were two Jeeps on Santa Cruz. Now, there are
around a thousand trucks and buses and cars there. So the
fundamental problems that we face are overconsumption and too
many people. It's the same problems in the Galapagos, except,
obviously, it's worse here, in some ways, than other places.
Because we've only doubled the population of the Earth since the
1960s -- a little more than doubled -- but we have 6.7 billion
people in the world, and we all like to consume. And one of the
major problems that we have is our operating system is not
giving us the proper feedback. We're not paying the true
environmental costs of our actions. And when I came at age 22 to
live on Fernandina, let me just