The most important part is to take on the challenge of protecting the ocean as if your life depends on it - because it does.

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 are depleting this immense diversity and abundance of life, and it matters tremendously for the future of the planet.

We don't have to be that greedy generation that just continued to take down the underpinnings of what makes the planet work in our favor.

The next 10 years could be the most important in the next 10,000.

We are taking way more out of the ocean than the ocean can replenish.

We couldn't go to the moon on whale oil. We don't have the capacity yet to consider doing such things as harnessing current sunlight. We're burning ancient sunlight in order to get us to where we now are. But it's costly.