Posted
on June 11, 2014
Jacques
Cousteau was one of those people. He talked about, wrote about, made
movies and TV shows about the ocean.
The ocean – huge basins of
sloshing, undrinkable water, which totally dominate the Earth – is
way too large to be affected by us puny humans, right?
We don't have
to worry about polluting it, because it's way too big to be bothered
by anything we could do, right?
And the creatures in the
ocean—they're just a bunch of fish, right?
Cousteau
made people care about how trash and other pollution affect the
ocean, and how important those effects are. He made us realize how
dependent we really are on the ocean, and how magnificent and
beautiful the sea and its creatures are.
He
did this partly by making the sciences of the ocean—oceanography
and marine biology—simple enough for those of us without advanced
degrees in science to understand. The simplification and
popularization of science—sometimes called “divulgationism”—was
criticized by some scientists, back then. But it caught on, and other
scientists went on to do the same thing on behalf of their favorite
fields of science as well...Carl Sagan and David Attenborough, Neil
deGrasse Tyson and Michio Kaku, Bill Nye and Isaac Asimov and Stephen
Hawking and many, many more scientists have spread the word about
their passion for the incredible universe we share.
Here
is a list of the “occupations” of Jacques Cousteau, who was born
on this date in 1910 in France:
- French naval officer
- explorer
- conservationist and founder of an environmental protection foundation
- award-winning filmmaker (more than 120 TV documentaries)
- innovator and co-developer of the Aqua-Lung (the first scuba, or Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus)
- scientist
- photographer
- author (more than 50 books)
- researcher
- member of the French Academy
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