175: Security
From: World Ocean Radio
Series: World Ocean Radio: The Sea Connects All Things
Length: 05:51
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The ocean is an inclusive and essential system that combines and connects us all. It serves the world to such an important degree that it cuts across and includes all securities and represents a value not to be squandered or lost. In this episode of World Ocean Radio, Peter Neill will assert that our security is synergistically linked to natural security and that the ocean will provide us with true security when we invariably turn to it in order to solve our problems for required fresh water, energy and protein.
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Piece Description
The ocean is an inclusive and essential system that combines and connects us all. It serves the world to such an important degree that it cuts across and includes all securities and represents a value not to be squandered or lost. In this episode of World Ocean Radio, Peter Neill will assert that our security is synergistically linked to natural security and that the ocean will provide us with true security when we invariably turn to it in order to solve our problems for required fresh water, energy and protein.
Broadcast History
WERU 89.9 FM, Blue Hill, ME; California Academy of Sciences/Steinhart Aquarium; KSER-FM, Everett, WA; Erie Maritime Museum, Mystic Seaport, Maine Boats Homes & Harbors; 3CR Melbourne: Out of the Blue; thew2o.net/world-ocean-radio.
Transcript
At a recent presentation in Boston, Steve Murawski, an ocean scientist from the University of South Florida, quoted an interesting definition of security as ‘the protection of the flow of benefit.” The word is pervasive in our current usage: food security, property security, personal security, financial security, national security. How often do we hear these phrases used to justify some ideological opinion, legislative option, social or legal right, financial regulation, or geopolitical act? Security has become a catch-all word imbued with an implication of danger or threat to our benefit that must be prevented at all costs. It is used, frequently by government, to convince us that a certain behavior is best for the common good, even if disrupts individual benefits, freedoms, and ways of life. Indeed, now one even hears the phrase “climate security,” implying the need for protection ag...
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Additional Credits
Peter Neill, Host; Trisha Badger, Associate Producer
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