Co-presented with the National Portrait Gallery
Featuring a live conversation with Her Deepness herself, Dr. Sylvia Earle, Lavinia Currier (Director, Deep Trouble), Sarah Nixon (Producer, Deep Trouble & Mission Blue) and Robert Nixon (Producer, Deep Trouble; Director/Producer, Mission Blue). Moderated by Washington Post Climate Solutions Reporter Allyson Chiu.
Both Portrait Gallery programs are being presented in conjunction with their exhibit Forces of Nature: Voices that Shaped Environmentalism, which presents U.S. scientists, politicians, activists, writers, and artists who have shaped attitudes toward the environment from the mid-nineteenth century to today.
Deep sea mining is a serious threat to the ocean's ecosystem and climate stability. In a poetic dialogue between oceanographer ‘Her Deepness’ Sylvia Earle and renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma, Deep Trouble explains how the ocean creates oxygen, sequesters carbon, regulates climate, and makes life possible on earth.