The Ocean Is Our Life Support System.

Burning Fossil Fuels Has Given Us The Gift Of Seeing Ourselves In New Ways. But That Very Gift Now Enables Us To See We've Got To Change Our Ways.

The Burning Of Fossil Fuels Has Altered The Amount Of Carbon Dioxide In The Atmosphere So Rapidly And So Abundantly That Now, We Are Driving Not Just The Warming Trend, Not Just The Sea Level Rise That Is A Consequence Of The Warming Trend That Is Melting Polar Ice And Alpine Ice, But Also [ocean Acidification].

Since I Began Exploring The Ocean In The 1950s, 90 Percent Of The Big Fish Have Been Stripped Away. Tuna, Sharks, Swordfish, Cod, Halibut, You Name It, The Numbers Have Just Collapsed. Also, About Half Of The Coral Reefs Are Gone, Globally, From Where They Were Just A Few Decades Ago.

If We Have A Hope Of Really Understanding Our Place In Nature And Of Carving Out A Place For Ourselves That Is Sustainable, It's Primarily Because Of The New Level Of Communication. It Used To Be, 'what You Don't Have In Your Mind, You Have On Your Shelf.' But Now We Have The Web.

We Are All Together In This, We Are All Together In This Single Living Ecosystem Called Planet Earth.