Only Two Percent Of The Ocean Is

We Humans Have This Idea That The Ocean Is So Big, So Vast, So Resilient That It Doesn't Matter What We Do To It. That May Have Been True 1,000 Years Ago. But In The Last 100, Especially The Last 50 Years, We Have Destroyed The Assets That Make Our Lives Possible.

Any Astronaut Can Tell You You've Got To Do Everything You Can To Learn About Your Life Support System And Then Do Everything You Can To Take Care Of It.

Nearly All Of The Major Kinds Of Life, Divisions Of Life, Phyla Of Animals, Occur In The Sea. Only About Half Of Them Can Make It To Land Or Freshwater.

Never Before Have We Known What We Know.

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.