Special Interview about Ocean Health: Mary Crowley

Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom Podcast. Today is a special interview series I did at a conference called Tonic in Santa Barbara, all about different technology initiatives that are aimed at solving the problems with our ocean. So in the context of creativity and stress, we can look at it from many different angles. You know, I investigate this on my show, what relationship stress plays in the creative process. And you can look at this from the individual level, or you can also look at it from a collective level. And the ocean is where we evolutionarily were designed. We were designed. We carry oceans within us. Our brain is bathed in a liquid solution very similar to the ocean. So our earliest ancestors developed inside of the ocean and the ocean. Today, as I learned in this conference, most of the developing world depends on the ocean for its food, and it is becoming more difficult for those people to do that. So the ocean is in many ways one of our largest creative assets as a species. Some maybe would even say as important as the sun. Sun probably is the most creative asset really we have. And so we as a species are putting stress, lots and lots of stress on this creative asset, the ocean. You know, I don't, I don't have the statistics with me right now, but estimates by 2050, we 90% of the, of the fish socks, the natural fish, wild fish stocks are going to be gone. Add that climate change to this, and. And it's a, you know, it's a real problem that we're facing. And so this conference, Tonic, was about ways that we can solve it using technology. I learned a lot. This first episode is going to be with Mary Crowley, and it really sets up the problem because the main problem is that the ocean is a collective commons. Nobody owns the ocean. So because nobody owns the ocean, there are very few incentives for any one country to police it. And this is one of the main challenges we're going to face. We're going to have to figure out how to actually collectively view the ocean as one of our most important resources in order to save it before we destroy it. And so this, this episode, it's a shorter episode than I normally do, and it really sets up the problem that we're facing, that there's a lot of trash in the ocean, and Mary has done a lot of work for the last 10 years and figure out how to get rid of that trash, what to do with that trash. And she has some interesting insights here. So I really hope you, hope you enjoy this episode. And I just wanted to give another shout out to Anders Jones, who I'll be collaborating with on an online course upcoming and it's for startup round startup founders who are looking to raise their seed stage or Series A for a distributed team. We'll be running an online course. Anderson raised $40 million in his series A, so he has a lot of valuable information of what it's like to raise money in 2018, 2019. It's a live online course. Be Monday and Friday. It is application only. So if you do want to apply, please find my blog, stuartalsop.substack.com I will be including information on how you can go ahead and apply for this. And yeah, really, we'd love to have you. So please let me know what your thoughts are on this episode.