{"id":2591,"date":"2020-12-09T18:49:33","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T23:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/natureforall.global\/es\/?p=2591"},"modified":"2020-12-18T12:27:44","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T17:27:44","slug":"relaunching-a-love-affair-with-the-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/natureforall.global\/es\/relaunching-a-love-affair-with-the-ocean\/","title":{"rendered":"Relaunching A Love Affair With The Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By: Danielle Ryan,\u00a0Bluebottle Films<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Tonight, we are standing on the top of the United Nations building, filming government dignitaries and other elite folk, who are sipping on champagne, leaning on high tables adorned with \u2018real\u2019 red roses, mingling and talking loudly over the Hudson River. There are some photographs dispersed around the inside room on easels, displaying a super yacht named the \u2018Yersin.\u2019<\/p>\n

Occasionally, you can see a boat zipping past below on the river with a guard holding a machine gun, while the guests above smile cheerfully and gather around Prince Albert II of Monaco shaking his hand, snapping happy photos on their iPhones, offering their congratulations on the big night.<\/p>\n

Before we continue, it is a fair question to ask – what does a fancy cocktail party have to do with saving the world\u2019s oceans?<\/p>\n

To understand why perhaps the Principality of Monaco\u2019s cocktail party celebration, starting at 6:30pm 7th June 2017, had any significance at all to the future of the planet, we must speak with Alex Pani.<\/p>\n

Alex is Monaco Television\u2019s royal correspondent to the House of Grimaldi of Monaco.<\/p>\n

She has a job that many would envy around the world. She is one of six reporters following the adventures of Prince Albert II and the royal household.<\/p>\n

While some people might envy her for close proximity to glamour, power and class, there is a much more subtle reason Alex enjoys her job.<\/p>\n

The glitter and jazz of the elite gathering in New York is interesting, but not as exciting as the reason behind why it is all happening.<\/p>\n

Alex has been following Prince Albert II for three years, and is rather focused on her job, which is full of structure, deadlines, and running after \u2018His Serene Highness\u2019 from meeting to meeting, day-in and day-out, on the days she has been assigned to him.<\/p>\n

However, Alex finds meaning not in the seniority of peoples\u2019 \u2018titles\u2019 she meets, but in the reasons behind the sorts of international gatherings the Prince most especially likes to attend – like the one that is occurring tonight.<\/p>\n

She says that the Prince is really passionate about environmental issues, especially about the ocean, because Monaco is a country that is bordered by the sea. The Prince has grown up by the sea.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe thinks it is important to be here at the Ocean Conference, the first one ever held by the United Nations. It is\u00a0really<\/em>\u00a0important for him,\u201d says Alex.<\/p>\n

Alex emphasises \u2018really<\/em>\u2019 important. You see, Prince Albert perhaps is no ordinary public figure.<\/p>\n

He may look the part of a royal in his finely dressed suit.<\/p>\n

He may be one of the richest royals on Earth.<\/p>\n

He may live behind the walls of a magnificent palace, and in a country surrounded by the constructions of luxurious marinas, super yachts, fine villas, and some of the wealthiest people, and many people might dream to have what Prince Albert II has.<\/p>\n

However, to the contrary, the Prince, himself, sees that none of this matters, if we do not look after the most precious thing of all – our planet.<\/p>\n

The world is only a blink away from the advance of ocean acidification and a time where more plastic than fish fill our oceans, which is why perhaps the Prince has thrown the billionaire rule book out the window.<\/p>\n

He isn\u2019t afraid to say that nations must \u2018fight\u2019 for the \u2018environment\u2019, for our planet\u2019s survival (at a time when \u2018fighting for the environment\u2019 can be a dangerous thing for an ordinary person to say) – and when he says this, he says it in such a well-mannered, softly-spoken New Yorker-sounding accent with a gentle smile that he makes it socially acceptable for the world\u2019s billionaires to join him on a campaign to reverse the world\u2019s perilous outlook.<\/p>\n

This man – who has studied political science, economics, psychology, English literature, the history of art, anthropology, geology, philosophy, sociology, German and music – is the only head of state to have visited the Arctic and Antarctica with the goal to understand the impacts of climate change and to help raise awareness on the global stage.<\/p>\n

Perhaps, this is the reason this cocktail party is so important.<\/p>\n

Alex says there is a lot of pressure on Monaco to show-off the launch of one of Monaco\u2019s voluntary commitments to help save the ocean.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring the Ocean Conference, there is a huge delegation of Monaco, because today is the official launching of the \u2018Monaco Explorations\u2019,\u201d says Alex.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will last for three years. It [Monaco Explorations] is a scientific ship called the Yersin, and it will travel for three years around the globe, to understand ocean issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

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So, the more we learn, the more we realise that the Prince is no ordinary prince, and that the Yersin is no ordinary super yacht. It is a ship that has been retrofitted with the vision of a philosopher, whose mind is clearly deeply rooted in a historical understanding of eras, like elements of the enlightenment period, where scientific investigation brought us closer to understanding Nature.<\/p>\n

The Prince is launching a grand plan – a renaissance in natural scientific exploration, retrofitting the ship with the world\u2019s best scientific laboratories, so its research teams can collect data from the deepest parts of the ocean, helping us to see things we have never seen before.<\/p>\n

But for Prince Albert II, it is more than a journey of discovery. He hopes it will reignite society\u2019s love affair with the ocean and science – and it all begins here, in this room.<\/p>\n

For the Prince, this is a life-long mission. He says that today has been a very emotional experience for him personally as he moves to re-launch a tradition of scientific exploration that his Great, Great, Grandfather, Prince Albert I, started long ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know if we will save the world in three years time, but at least we will have contributed to a better understanding of different systems in our oceans,\u201d says the Prince.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we all know, the oceans are vital for our survival.\u201d<\/p>\n

His people depend on it, and so do we all – from the poorest to the most wealthy nations. We are all connected by this giant blue organ we call the sea, but not everyone understand this (or, not yet).<\/p>\n

So, the Prince has a lot of work to do – and he gets that. He gets that he needs to campaign for more wealthy friends to come join him: the good news is that when the Yersin launches, Monaco\u2019s harbour will be full of Europe\u2019s wealthy elite, who will know all about the Prince\u2019s mission.<\/p>\n

And, hopefully, they talk. Hopefully, they throw their own fancy cocktail parties and announce the launch of their own scientific missions on their own big fancy yachts.<\/p>\n

Can you imagine? Maybe, just maybe, the Prince\u2019s work might inspire the world\u2019s elite to have a love affair with saving the ocean – now, that would be a romantic bestseller that could entrance and inspire younger generations to come.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

He may live behind the walls of a magnificent palace, and in a country surrounded by the constructions of luxurious marinas, super yachts, fine villas; however, the Prince, himself, sees that none of this matters, if we do not look after the most precious thing of all – our planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/natureforall.global\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/natureforall.global\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/natureforall.global\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natureforall.global\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natureforall.global\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/natureforall.global\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natureforall.global\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/natureforall.global\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natureforall.global\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natureforall.global\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}