Throughout all of human history we've enjoyed certain benign circumstances: an envelope of atmosphere, an envelope of temperature. A kind of resilience that if you cut down trees, then they'll grow back. You take fish, they recover. You put stuff into the atmosphere that you know is not good for us, but we can still breathe. We haven't awakened, generally, to the sense of urgency that does exist.

Childcare is a huge issue for young women whose work may require them to leave their families for weeks at a time.

Not only who am I, but who are we? And where are we going? It's the "we." It's the social connections that are special to human beings.

Look at a child and realize that their future is in your hands. It's not just those who will be here fifty years from now. The decisions we make in the next ten years will shape the next 10,000 years.

The most important thing for people to know about the governance of the Arctic is that we have a chance now to act to maintain the integrity of the system or to lose it. To lose it means that we will dismember the vital systems that make the Arctic work. It's not just a cost to the people who live there. It's a cost to all people everywhere.

You don't have to touch the ocean for the ocean to touch you

When I arrived on the planet, there were only two billion. Wildlife was more abundant, we were less so; now the situation is reversed.