Kai Lenny argues that effective ocean cleanup requires developing sustainable alternatives for consumer packaging rather than just attempting to remove plastic after it enters the ocean.

“the key is to make it so that um you're not asking people to change their behavior you change the products that are already a part of their behavior”

There is an urgent need for greater protection of ocean resources and a reduction in destructive practices like industrial fishing.

“Yeah, it's horrific the more that you learn about this large scale industrial fishing, the trawlers and what they do to the bottom of the ocean and just the amount of catch and how much of it is discarded for the few alongside, you know, the shark fin trade- All of those things.”

Industrial fishing practices and deep-sea mining should be restricted or stopped to allow ocean ecosystems to recover and preserve biodiversity.

“So we're not gonna dry up the ocean tomorrow, but let's say you just modify the ocean, warm the ocean, make it a generator of more powerful storms and more frequent storms, make it a generator of sea level rise because warm water takes more space than cold water.”