We have the power to abstain from destructive behavior.

Photosynthetic organisms in the sea yield most of the oxygen in the atmosphere, take up and store vast amounts of carbon dioxide, shape planetary chemistry, and hold the planet steady.

The next 10 years could be the most important in the next 10,000.

There is a terribly terrestrial mindset about what we need to do to take care of the planet-as if the ocean somehow doesn't matter or is so big, so vast that it can take care of itself, or that there is nothing that we could possibly do that we could harm the ocean...We are learning otherwise.

There's a vested interest in trying to keep people smoking cigarettes.

If you think the ocean isn't important, imagine Earth without it. Mars comes to mind. No ocean, no life support system.

There is not a well-funded campaign among scientists to say, "Look, here's the evidence. You can read it yourself. Here are the facts. We're not making this up."