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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.

It Has Taken These Many Hundreds Of Millions Of Years To Fine-tune The Earth To A Point Where It Is Suitable For The Likes Of Us.

When You Are A Child You Learn Your Alphabet, Your Numbers, But Increasingly, We Must Learn From The Earliest Stages That The Highest Priority Has To Be To Maintain The World As A Safe Place For Humankind.

I've Spent Thousands Of Hours Under Water. And Even In The Deepest Dive I Have Ever Made, 2.5 Miles (about 4 Kilometers) Down, I Saw Trash And Other Tangible Evidence Of Our Presence.

When You Think About The Real Cost Of So-called Cheap Energy That Has Driven Our Prosperity To Unprecedented Levels, For Some Of Us, To Our Horror, We've Realized That This Has The Potential For Burning Brightly And Then Snuffing Out.