Santa Monica Bay is less polluted today than when I first moved to the area in the 1970s, because actions have been taken to avoid putting some of the noxious materials into the sea. I think people are more aware than they once were, the air is cleaner, water generally is, in spite of the fact that there are more people.
Sylvia EarleGreat attention gets paid to rainforests because of the diversity of life there. Diversity in the oceans is even greater.
Sylvia EarleWe are depleting this immense diversity and abundance of life, and it matters tremendously for the future of the planet.
Sylvia EarleWe want to think of ourselves as truly special creatures that are unique in the universe and, well, we are. And we have that capacity to wonder, to question, and to see ourselves in the context of all of life that has preceded the present time, and all that will go off far into the future, one way or another.
Sylvia Earle