We Have The Power To Abstain From

Even Our Rules And Regulations, Our Laws, Our Policies, Favor The Destructive Nature Of Taking Too Much From The Ocean And Using Techniques That Are Horribly Destructive. We Know They Don't Work. We Know It's Not Sustainable.

We Want To Think Of Ourselves As Truly Special Creatures That Are Unique In The Universe And, Well, We Are. And We Have That Capacity To Wonder, To Question, And To See Ourselves In The Context Of All Of Life That Has Preceded The Present Time, And All That Will Go Off Far Into The Future, One Way Or Another.

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.

I'm Haunted By The Thought Of What Ray Anderson Calls 'tomorrow's Child,' Asking Why We Didn't Do Something On Our Watch To Save Sharks And Bluefin Tuna And Squids And Coral Reefs And The Living Ocean While There Still Was Time. Well, Now Is That Time.

I Hope For Your Help To Explore And Protect The Wild Ocean In Ways That Will Restore The Health And, In So Doing, Secure Hope For Humankind. Health To The Ocean Means Health For Us.