With ocean protection on the agenda as our world leaders prepare to gather in Brazil for the U.N.’s Rio+20 Earth Summit–and World Oceans Day approaching on Friday (6/8)–Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) released this inspirational video:
In this short video, a group of hundreds of people, led by pro surfer Laird Hamilton, form a Guinness World Record-setting “peace paddle” to raise awareness about the critical problems facing our seas and the need for urgent action to address them–forming a giant human peace sign in the waves.
The goal of the Peace Paddle is to inspire international action at the Rio+20 summit to protect the world’s oceans from the ever-growing global threats they face: from carbon pollution making the waters acidic, to plastic trash choking sea animals, overfishing and entire ecosystems degrading at an ever-faster rate.
Read more from the paddle leaders on what inspired them to do this:
- Blog from professional big wave surfer Laird Hamilton: http://bit.ly/KPAJ3N
- Blog from NRDC trustee Kelly Meyer: http://bit.ly/L0skHl
And Sarah Chasis, Director of NRDC’s Ocean Initiative, blogs on the need for action on ocean protection at Rio+20 here: http://bit.ly/NjoIEh.
image: Craig Shmitman
