Everyone is talking about Seaspiracy, the Netflix documentary directed by and starring Ali Tabrizi, a 27-year-old British filmmaker with a lifelong love of the oceans. It’s dominating the top three most-watched spots on the streaming platform across major markets. Celebrities are chiming in with their support and people swearing off fish for good. The Internet hasn’t been this abuzz about a Netflix production since 2020’s Tiger King frenzy this time last year. Seaspiracy is bringing about a sea change, quite literally. It’s so full of mind-bending statistics they’re enough to drown in. Like millions of people across the globe, Tabrizi grew up a fan of marine mammal parks, mesmerized by dolphins and whales. But his discovery of the growing plastic pollution problem turned him into an activist in recent years. This is where the film begins, with Tabrizi becoming a stalwart for a plastic reduction in the name of ocean conservation. He spends his free time combing beaches for plastic waste, encouraging people to be more conscious about their impact, and looking for answers. What Tabrizi uncovers in the 90 minutes that follow is nothing short of a whale of a story. Fishing is destroying the planet; it’s responsible for most of our plastic pollution problems. Oceans produce more oxygen and sequester more carbon than anyplace else on earth. But unless we take action, we’re going to fish our oceans, and ourselves, into extinction.