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.

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

I'm not against extracting a modest amount of wildlife out of the ocean for human consumption, but I am really concerned about the large-scale industrial fishing that engages in destructive practices like trawling and longlining.

It's taken us a short time to change the nature of nature. In my lifetime, more change than during all preceding human history put together.

Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now.

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

We're still under the weight of this impression that the ocean is too big to fail, that the planet is too big to fail.