I Am Not In Any Hurry To

We Are Depleting This Immense Diversity And Abundance Of Life, And It Matters Tremendously For The Future Of The Planet.

As A Child, I Was Aware Of The Widely-held Attitude That The Ocean Is So Big, So Resilient That We Could Use The Sea As The Ultimate Place To Dispose Of Anything We Did Not Want, From Garbage And Nuclear Wastes To Sludge From Sewage To Entire Ships That Had Reached The End Of Their Useful Life.

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.

Use Your Power To Do Whatever It Takes To Secure For Humankind An Enduring Place On This Little Blue Speck In The Universe - Our Only Hope.

Since The Middle Of The 20th Century, More Has Been Learnt About The Ocean Than During All Preceding Human History; At The Same Time, More Has Been Lost.