Health To The Ocean Means Health For

Most Of Life On Earth Has A Deep Past, Much Deeper Than Ours. And We Have Benefited From The Distillation Of All Preceding History, Call It Evolutionary History If You Will.

The Burning Of Fossil Fuels Has Altered The Amount Of Carbon Dioxide In The Atmosphere So Rapidly And So Abundantly That Now, We Are Driving Not Just The Warming Trend, Not Just The Sea Level Rise That Is A Consequence Of The Warming Trend That Is Melting Polar Ice And Alpine Ice, But Also [ocean Acidification].

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.

In The Past Few Decades, Earth's Natural Systems Have Endured More Pressure Than In All Preceding Human History.

Forty Percent Of The United States Drains Into The Mississippi. It's Agriculture. It's Golf Courses. It's Domestic Runoff From Our Lawns And Roads. Ultimately, Where Does It Go? Downstream Into The Gulf.