Ice Ages Have Come And Gone. Coral

The Observations That Have Developed Over The Years Have Given Us Perspective About Where We Fit In. We Are Newcomers, Really Recent Arrivals On A Planet That Is Four And A Half Billion Years Old.

You Don't Have To Touch The Ocean For The Ocean To Touch You

Nothing Has Prepared Sharks, Squid, Krill And Other Sea Creatures For Industrial-scale Extraction That Destroys Entire Ecosystems While Targeting A Few Species.

Earth As An Ecosystem Stands Out In The All Of The Universe. There's No Place That We Know About That Can Support Life As We Know It, Not Even Our Sister Planet, Mars, Where We Might Set Up Housekeeping Someday, But At Great Effort And Trouble We Have To Recreate The Things We Take For Granted Here.

As A Child, I Was Aware Of The Widely-held Attitude That The Ocean Is So Big, So Resilient That We Could Use The Sea As The Ultimate Place To Dispose Of Anything We Did Not Want, From Garbage And Nuclear Wastes To Sludge From Sewage To Entire Ships That Had Reached The End Of Their Useful Life.