The Arctic Is An Ocean. The Southern

Ice Ages Have Come And Gone. Coral Reefs Have Persisted.

It's Baffling Why The Issues Relating To Climate Change - [which] Have Far More Obvious And Tangible And Much More Clear-cut Evidence About The Cause - Have Been Slower For People To Accept As A Given.

We've Got To Somehow Stabilize Our Connection To Nature So That In 50 Years From Now, 500 Years, 5,000 Years From Now There Will Still Be A Wild System And Respect For What It Takes To Sustain Us.

Ten Percent Of The Big Fish Still Remain. There Are Still Some Blue Whales. There Are Still Some Krill In Antarctica. There Are A Few Oysters In Chesapeake Bay. Half The Coral Reefs Are Still In Pretty Good Shape, A Jeweled Belt Around The Middle Of The Planet. There's Still Time, But Not A Lot, To Turn Things Around.

Like A Shipwreck Or A Jetty, Almost Anything That Forms A Structure In The Ocean, Whether It Is Natural Or Artificial Over Time, Collects Life.