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Ocean Acidification - The Excess Carbon Dioxide In The Atmosphere That Is Turning The Oceans Increasingly Acid - Is A Slow But Accelerating Impact With Consequences That Will Greatly Overshadow All The Oil Spills Put Together. The Warming Trend That Is Co2-related Will Overshadow All The Oil Spills That Have Ever Occurred Put Together.

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.

All Through College, I Had Frequently Been The Only Girl In A Science Class - Which Wasn't Such A Bad Deal.

Health To The Ocean Means Health For Us.

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.