What drives you to deliver the message about the dangers of carbon emissions?
Well, I started out as a kid not far from where we're sitting on this boat getting a diving certification in the Santa Monica bay and I saw incredible kelp forest, fish, and wildlife. I went back 10 years later after living in other parts of the world and found all of it gone; devastated by pollution that came off our urban landscape. It made me aware of the impact humans have on our natural environment. Then as I grew up and went into business and kind of led my life I kept observing how what we did not only harmed the environment, but that in turn harmed our economy; harmed our pocketbooks, and made things more expensive. Carbon emissions created things like asthma in my friends. My father died of emphysema; he was a smoker, but I'm sure it was aggravated by air pollution in the busy urban city that he lived in. So, I became very passionate about telling people about the dangers of carbon emissions, because I realized that I didn't know much about it as a young adult. Most people don't. They go about their lives and are not aware of the impact that environmental degradation and pollution has on them and on their families, or that there is something we can all do about it.
