Parley Talks: IAIN KERR

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‘Climate Change's Evil Twin’

“We are a visual species. If we see something, we respond to it. And the problem with ocean pollution is there is no smoking gun.”

IAIN KERR

Iain Kerr, CEO of Ocean Alliance, has spent the last couple decades using unobtrusive methods to better understand what’s out there, and what it means to the animals. At Parley Wall Street, he shares key findings from the Voyage of the Odyssey, a 5 ½-year journey of 87,000 nautical miles spent collecting the first-ever global data set on toxic contaminants by studying the sperm whale. Parley Wall Street, 2014

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Parley Talks: IAIN KERR

‘Climate Change's Evil Twin’

“We are a visual species. If we see something, we respond to it. And the problem with ocean pollution is there is no smoking gun.”

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