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.

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.

My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.

You don't have to touch the ocean for the ocean to touch you

This much is certain: We have the power to damage the sea, but no sure way to heal the harm.

It doesn't matter where on Earth you live, everyone is utterly dependent on the existence of that lovely, living saltwater soup. There's plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.

If I seem like a radical it's because I have seen things that others have not.