00:00The fact most people do not know, whales are not just animals, they are the engine that keeps this planet
00:06breathing.
00:07Every time a whale dives deep and returns to the surface, it brings nutrients from the ocean floor into the
00:13sunlit zone.
00:14Those nutrients feed phytoplankton, and phytoplankton produce between 50 and 80% of all the oxygen on Earth.
00:23Phytoplankton absorb more carbon than the entire Amazon rainforest.
00:27Without them, that carbon stays in the atmosphere.
00:31The food chain follows.
00:33Krill.
00:34Then fish.
00:36Then everything that eats fish.
00:38Half the oxygen on Earth.
00:41Gone.
00:42You have been breathing air made possible by whale excrement your entire life.
00:47Every single breath.
00:49Without knowing.
00:50That is what disappears when the last whale does.
00:54What do you think?