Why we need more of these ASAP

No head, no advanced central nervous system, but a lot of power. These ocean heroes are great for the climate and we need more of them ASAP.

⚠️ DISCLAIMER: In the video, at 01:08, we mention that oysters have no organs. This is not true. Oysters do have organs and a heart, although they do not have an advanced central nervous system.

Reporter: Amanda Coulson-Drasner
Camera: Chris Caurla
Video Editors: Amanda Coulson-Drasner, Freddy Willmann
Supervising Editors: Kiyo Dörrer, Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann

We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

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Chapters

00:00 Intro
00:33 Background
01:55 Filtering
03:40 Reefs
04:41 Protecting coastlines
05:11 Farming
07:15 Restoration
08:14 Conclusion

[hentisenti]

Pessimistic people may think it's naïve, but This is the Climate/pollution Optimism we all need right now

[matthewstromberg]

I am doing a PhD in environmental engineering focused on restorative and recirculating aquaculture. Please keep making content like this and reach out to me at UMBC if you have any questions about aquaculture or aquatic ecosystems!

[limbodog]

What part of the US puts oysters in vodka? I've never seen this anywhere

[D-angelin.Moarar]

DW Planet A is such a great project.
Really hoping for a big expansion of oyster and mussel cultivating

[RushingRussianify]

One thing DW missed is that the best location for the shells of consumed oysters is back into the water (and tidal height) they were harvested or naturally grow in. This creates a growing environment where free floating baby shellfish who are evolved to latch onto shells can further build the ecosystem in a positive feedback loop. Plus this increases the availability of calcium and other minerals present in shells for other shellfish to absorb over time.
TLDR put empty shells back in ocean where they naturally grow... don't try the greenwash "cyclical" composting or manufacturing as they are likely worse for the environment

[francescos]

Thanks I love acquaculture as engineer and study oceanography, bioinformatic in sponge cities and ports . Aquaculture and cozze are the future, of course.

[offshoreshellfish-musselss]

Bivalves are a superfood in every sense. We farm mussels in the open ocean and have seen so many environmental benefits to the surrounding marine ecosystem.

[thesun]

Harvesting maricultured Mussels and Oysters; then Cleaning (with Tap Water), Recycling, and Reusing the Shells as Substrate to Farm more Shellfish is a Nature-assisted method of removing Carbon from Seawater (and Indirectly from the Atmosphere).

[quinto]

That's a great video pointing to solutions, not problems. Well done!

[paolagrando]

What happens to the chemicals that the bivalves filter? Do they get broken down and aren't harmful anymore? Do they stay in the little shell animals?

[SaveMoneySavethePlanet]

Awesome video. It’s so important to remember that we need to not only reduce our over consumption but ALSO do projects like this in order to repair the ecosystems which we have destroyed!

P.S. I had plant based tuna for the first time the other day and was floored! I honestly thought they gave me real tuna by mistake at first!

[francescos]

Aquaculture development in sponge ports, to me, can trasform the water in solar energy and sustain stadiums, aereospace hub, airports, universities, schools, joke park, research vessel doubling their potential for five or eight hotels .

[DC]

Europe could mandate oyster restaurants to store them for collection and waterway restoration

[ronkirk]

The possibility of ingesting micro plastics and the over exploitation of seafood resources and its' impact on other marine species are the two main reasons I gave up eating seafood years ago. Humans don't need to eat seafood to survive, but all sea birds and most other marine animals don't have that option.

[SharapovaFan]

All I see is deliciousness. Clam soup, clam chowder, baked mussels, raw oysters with a bit of yuzu, pan-seared scallops with butter, clam and mussels vongole pasta, bacon wrapped scallops, grilled oysters with ponzu and butter, etc. etc.

[thawhiteazn]

I absolutely do not put my oysters in vodka. I put lemon juice and tobasco on mine.

[DWPlanetA]

What other animals have surprisingly large impacts on nature? Are there any special creatures where you live?

[robertskolimowski]

Great video, hope ppl become more and more aware of this and start acting in earnest🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻✌

[petterbirgersson]

This is a good initiative, but in addition bottom trawling for fishing has to be stopped. It is damaging the existing ecosystems of the ocean floor.

Sure, we need to restore the ocean habitats, but first we have to stop the destruction of what we already have.

[francescos]

Public acceptance of water management in ports and cities north spong and south smart ports, floating cities and energies osmotic, absorbing in north and trasforming in south sustaining stadiums, hotels in mountain, etc, etc .