What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.

We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.

I'm not against extracting a modest amount of wildlife out of the ocean for human consumption, but I am really concerned about the large-scale industrial fishing that engages in destructive practices like trawling and longlining.

Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe. There's no place that we know about that can support life as we know it, not even our sister planet, Mars, where we might set up housekeeping someday, but at great effort and trouble we have to recreate the things we take for granted here.

We understand that we must make peace with nature - that our lives depend on it.

I am driven by what I know; that the world I love is in trouble.

In the past few decades, Earth's natural systems have endured more pressure than in all preceding human history.