the industrial revolution, they have absorbed about a third of the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. they do it better and they do it faster than any other ecosystem so are you hoping out of this that what it will help launch is perhaps greater urgency to protect these ecosystems absolutely because if we protect nature& these ecosystems, these ecosystems protect us so mangroves not only sequester four times more carbon than tropical rainforest, but they stopped storm surge. >> if you have about a half-mile of a mangrove fringe, the water level coming in and a storm goes down by about a fraudulent big quarters. that's a huge difference between getting flooded and not getting flooded and then there are a major source of fisheries. and one-and-a-half billion people, particularly in developing nations, depend on fisheries. so what i'm hoping is that it's going to make people more aware of not just the carbon and climate value