Burning fossil fuels has given us the gift of seeing ourselves in new ways. But that very gift now enables us to see we've got to change our ways.

Ironically the very energy, the very basis of how we know what we know, has been reliant on having an energy source [necessary] to build rockets to go to the moon and Mars, to support airplanes that fly, and satellites to give us our communication.

The very energy sources that have gotten us to where we are now are also, if we continue doing what we're doing, a shortcut to the end of all that we hold near and dear.

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.

It's a fact of life that there will be oil spills, as long as oil is moved from place to place, but we must have provisions to deal with them, and a capability that is commensurate with the size of the oil shipments.

The ocean seemed like a sea of Eden. But now we are facing paradise lost.

We are not only warming the ocean and the planet as a whole, but we are also acidifying the ocean and changing its chemistry.