Most of life on Earth has a deep past, much deeper than ours. And we have benefited from the distillation of all preceding history, call it evolutionary history if you will.

We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.

It's baffling why the issues relating to climate change - [which] have far more obvious and tangible and much more clear-cut evidence about the cause - have been slower for people to accept as a given.

Only two percent of the ocean is fully protected right now.

Humans are the only creatures with the ability to dive deep in the sea, fly high in the sky, send instant messages around the globe, reflect on the past, assess the present and imagine the future.

It has taken these many hundreds of millions of years to fine-tune the Earth to a point where it is suitable for the likes of us.

No creature on Earth ever has organized themselves in ways that we have, with the capacity to alter the nature of nature the way we have.