The Oceans Deserve Our Respect And Care,

The Most Important Thing For People To Know About The Governance Of The Arctic Is That We Have A Chance Now To Act To Maintain The Integrity Of The System Or To Lose It. To Lose It Means That We Will Dismember The Vital Systems That Make The Arctic Work. It's Not Just A Cost To The People Who Live There. It's A Cost To All People Everywhere.

Some Experts Look At Global Warming, Increased World Temperature, As The Critical Tipping Point That Is Causing A Crash In Coral Reef Health Around The World. And There's No Question That It Is A Factor, But It's Preceded By The Loss Of Resilience And Degradation.

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.

Far And Away, The Greatest Threat To The Ocean, And Thus To Ourselves, Is Ignorance. But We Can Do Something About That.

It's A Fact Of Life That There Will Be Oil Spills, As Long As Oil Is Moved From Place To Place, But We Must Have Provisions To Deal With Them, And A Capability That Is Commensurate With The Size Of The Oil Shipments.