We are not only warming the ocean and the planet as a whole, but we are also acidifying the ocean and changing its chemistry.

We want to believe that we can continue doing what we've done for the past thousand years and not worry about the consequences coming back to us.

Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It's agriculture. It's golf courses. It's domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately, where does it go? Downstream into the gulf.

The ocean seemed like a sea of Eden. But now we are facing paradise lost.

This much is certain: We have the power to damage the sea, but no sure way to heal the harm.

It is not too late to turn things around.

Humans have always wondered the big questions, "Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?" It's part of human nature. It's perhaps the underpinnings of religion.