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Never Again Will We Have This Good A Chance As We Now Have To Find An Enduring Place For Ourselves Within The Natural Systems That Keep Us Alive. It's A Sweet Spot In History. That's Why This Is Such A Critical Time.

Santa Monica Bay Is Less Polluted Today Than When I First Moved To The Area In The 1970s, Because Actions Have Been Taken To Avoid Putting Some Of The Noxious Materials Into The Sea. I Think People Are More Aware Than They Once Were, The Air Is Cleaner, Water Generally Is, In Spite Of The Fact That There Are More People.

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.

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.

By The End Of The 20th Century, Up To 90 Percent Of The Sharks, Tuna, Swordfish, Marlins, Groupers, Turtles, Whales, And Many Other Large Creatures That Prospered In The Gulf For Millions Of Years Had Been Depleted By Overfishing.