The ocean seemed like a sea of Eden. But now we are facing paradise lost.

Ocean acidification - the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid - is a slow but accelerating impact with consequences that will greatly overshadow all the oil spills put together. The warming trend that is CO2-related will overshadow all the oil spills that have ever occurred put together.

Health to the ocean means health for us.

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.

Humans have always wondered the big questions, "Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?" It's part of human nature. It's perhaps the underpinnings of religion.

We are not only warming the ocean and the planet as a whole, but we are also acidifying the ocean and changing its chemistry.

With care and protection, with safe havens in the ocean, there is still a good chance that we can turn things around.