We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return.

The concept of 'peak oil' has penetrated the hearts and minds of people concerned about energy for the future. 'Peak fish' occurred around the end of the 1980s.

We're still under the weight of this impression that the ocean is too big to fail, that the planet is too big to fail.

Great attention gets paid to rainforests because of the diversity of life there. Diversity in the oceans is even greater.

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.

I actually love diving at night; you see a lot of fish then that you don't see in the daytime.

The climate has been changing. Of course it [has]. Evidence throughout history, [which] we can assess, especially during human history, shows there have been ups and downs. But the last ten thousand years have been relatively stable compared to now.