Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they've spent time in and around the ocean, and they've personally seen the beauty, the fragility, and even the degradation of our planet's blue heart.

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

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.

We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.

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

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.

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