If you think the ocean isn't important, imagine Earth without it. Mars comes to mind. No ocean, no life support system.

The ocean is dying, and we have no place to escape to if this experiment doesn't go in our favor.

It's a fact of life that there will be oil spills, as long as oil is moved from place to place, but we must have provisions to deal with them, and a capability that is commensurate with the size of the oil shipments.

You should ask where your food is coming from.

The Earth is a unique system in the universe, the only planet we know of that's hospitable for humankind.

Just as we have the power to harm the ocean, we have the power to put in place policies and modify our own behavior in ways that would be an insurance policy for the future of the sea, for the creatures there, and for us, protecting special critical areas in the ocean.

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