The Earth is a tiny blue speck in a universe of unfriendly options.

Great attention gets paid to rainforests because of the diversity of life there. Diversity in the oceans is even greater.

The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.

It's baffling why the issues relating to climate change - [which] have far more obvious and tangible and much more clear-cut evidence about the cause - have been slower for people to accept as a given.

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

If the sea is sick, we'll feel it. If it dies, we die. Our future and the state of the oceans are one.

Any astronaut can tell you you've got to do everything you can to learn about your life support system and then do everything you can to take care of it.