It is not too late to turn things around.

It has taken these many hundreds of millions of years to fine-tune the Earth to a point where it is suitable for the likes of us.

The burning of fossil fuels has altered the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere so rapidly and so abundantly that now, we are driving not just the warming trend, not just the sea level rise that is a consequence of the warming trend that is melting polar ice and alpine ice, but also [ocean acidification].

You should ask where your food is coming from.

No water, no life. No blue, no green.

Ignorance is the biggest problem of all for the ocean - and for many other things as well.

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.