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The ‘Entourage’ star, who was in the UAE recently to promote his ‘Stop Sucking’ campaign against single-use plastic straws and to discuss sustainable living in this region with companies Krush Brands and Ecopack.me, finds such tags highly reductive. His philosophy seems to have worked wonderfully for this versatile talent. The musician-entrepreneur-philanthropist is best known for playing Vincent Chase on HBO’s ‘Entourage’ that ran for eight season and his roles in the Hollywood hits ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ and ‘Drive Me Crazy’.
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The ‘Entourage’ star, who was in the UAE recently to promote his ‘Stop Sucking’ campaign against single-use plastic straws and to discuss sustainable living in this region with companies Krush Brands and Ecopack.me, finds such tags highly reductive. His philosophy seems to have worked wonderfully for this versatile talent. The musician-entrepreneur-philanthropist is best known for playing Vincent Chase on HBO’s ‘Entourage’ that ran for eight season and his roles in the Hollywood hits ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ and ‘Drive Me Crazy’.
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00:00Well, I'm here to talk about the work that I've been doing for the oceans
00:04through my organization that I founded, Lonely Whale,
00:08as well as with the UN Environment Program,
00:12and just generally as a citizen, as a human being.
00:23I'm not an alarmist, personally.
00:25I don't think it's productive to try and prove that it's happening or not.
00:31I look at it as a much deeper opportunity for people to improve their life
00:39and create a world that is better than one that creates a lot of pollution
00:44and a lot of damage to the planet.
00:47And it's not necessarily about saving ourselves.
00:51I think, you know, as a spiritual person,
00:54I think it's beyond us to know what saving is.
00:58I think it's a matter of just living every day as humbly and as honestly
01:04and as awake as possible.
01:10I don't get involved in the noise of politics.
01:14A lot of times politicians are looking to adopt a policy
01:18or say something that just gets them elected
01:21or earns favor with the population or to keep power.
01:26For me, I'm more interested in really meeting people
01:30and helping to bring together a theory of change and a way of living
01:37that elevates society beyond what politicians say.
01:43When we pollute the ocean and when we pollute the environment,
01:48at the end of the day, it makes for a less positive human experience
01:54and also for the animals.
01:56If you look around and you see whales washing up on shore
02:00with plastic in their belly,
02:02I think it's a sign that we could do things better.
02:05It's a lot harder to actually do the right thing every day
02:08and to work hard for others, not yourself, to be less selfish.
02:14But when I look out into the world, I see the environment.
02:17It's not the environment, it's life itself.
02:20I have a passion to create life.
02:24And when you see the destruction that some of our bad behavior
02:28and our ignorance creates,
02:30it can't help but break your heart.
02:33When I started Lonely Whale, I was inspired by the voice of a whale.
02:38It doesn't speak the same language as other whales.
02:41He speaks a different frequency.
02:43He speaks 52 hertz when other whales speak 15 to 20 hertz.
02:47So this animal, who's highly sentient, very social,
02:51has been calling out his whole life with out-of-body experiences.
02:55Who's highly sentient, very social, has been calling out his whole life
02:59without receiving a response from other whales.
03:02But you know what, he can't communicate with others of his kind, other whales.
03:07But he can communicate with me, and I can hear him in my heart.
03:10So all you have to do really, I think, is look out into the world
03:14and let yourself be overwhelmed with the awesome power of nature and life.
03:19And you can't help but want to do better.
03:25LONELY WHALE