Naoko Ishii : An economic case for protecting the planet

Naoko Ishii at TEDGlobal>NYC 2017
An economic case for protecting the planet  (transcript)
Summary
I was sorry that I think the talk was boring, the speaker told us many important things, though.
I really wanted to tell the world that Japanese fishermen haven't overfished since a long time ago. Just Japanese people have been good at cooking. When foreigners ate a dish of fish, especially a whale, they felt that it’s strongly delicious. Thus they always say that only Japanese people catch whales. However, In Japan, whaling is preserved but overfishing hasn't occurred.
Now, there are countries which secretly catch a lot of fish and they sell them to Japan. Before fish disappear, countries should stop fishing, Japan also should stop buying, and the fish‐raising industries should be spread.

Then change environment needs to do with economic systems but people have to know that it leads to economic down. We need to change our city, energy system, production-consumption system and food system.

We don't have time to wait.

Words in this story
absorb /verb/ soak up, suck up
deteriorate /verb/ become progressively worse.