Many of us ask what can I, as one person, do, but history shows us that everything good and bad starts because somebody does something or does not do something.

When I first ventured into the Gulf of Mexico in the 1950s, the sea appeared to be a blue infinity too large, too wild to be harmed by anything that people could do.

If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes - I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over.

'Green' issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security.

America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference.

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.

If the sea is sick, we'll feel it. If it dies, we die. Our future and the state of the oceans are one.