I Am Not In Any Hurry To

The Most Important Part Is To Take On The Challenge Of Protecting The Ocean As If Your Life Depends On It - Because It Does.

We Still Have The Illusion That The Ocean Will Recover. That Even If We Do Have To Lose Sharks, People Don't Understand Why This Matters. The Evidence Is In Front Of Us, And We Fail To Take It In And Say, "now I Get It. Now I Understand."

When Some People Look At A Shrimp They Think, "hmm. Delicious." When I Look At A Shrimp I Think, "you're A Miracle, Absolutely Incredible. Your Ancestors Have Gone Back Hundreds Of Millions Of Years." And To Develop A Thing As Simple As A Shrimp Cocktail, You Have To Calculate The Hundreds Of Millions Of Years That Have Preceded That Moment Where You're Sitting There With Your Sauce And Fork Poised.

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.

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.