
An SOS From The Ocean
TED Radio Hour
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The Hubris of a 20-Year-Old in Madagascar
The scale of it was very shocking to me. Seeing children in fishing communities go hungry at the same time as foreign industrial boats are fishing with impunity offshore. And this is going on around coasts like Madagascar and low-income tropical coastal developing states year in year out. So they didn't go for the idea because you didn't really consider their day-to-day reality. Like even if it was a great idea, they have to feed their families like today, right? Did their situation surprise you? I appreciate that. The hubris involved in a 20-year-old going to Madagascar with a view to doing something about coral reef conservation beggars' belief.
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