We're still under the weight of this impression that the ocean is too big to fail, that the planet is too big to fail.

If I seem like a radical it's because I have seen things that others have not.

What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.

The Earth is a tiny blue speck in a universe of unfriendly options.

When I arrived on the planet, there were only two billion. Wildlife was more abundant, we were less so; now the situation is reversed.

The most important thing for people to know about the governance of the Arctic is that we have a chance now to act to maintain the integrity of the system or to lose it. To lose it means that we will dismember the vital systems that make the Arctic work. It's not just a cost to the people who live there. It's a cost to all people everywhere.

The ocean is our life support system. No blue, no green. It's really a miracle that we have got a place that works in our favor.