We Are Not Only Warming The Ocean

Throughout All Of Human History We Have Consumed The Natural World. All Creatures Do. Birds Do. Fish Do. Earthworms Do. We Consume The Natural World As A Source Of Our Survival. But No Creature Has Ever Consumed At The Scale That Humans Have, And Now There Are Seven Billion Of Us. I Think The Good News Is That A Large Percentage Of Those Seven Billion Minds Can Work To Make Better Decisions.

Photosynthetic Organisms In The Sea Yield Most Of The Oxygen In The Atmosphere, Take Up And Store Vast Amounts Of Carbon Dioxide, Shape Planetary Chemistry, And Hold The Planet Steady.

Look At The Bark Of A Redwood, And You See Moss. If You Peer Beneath The Bits And Pieces Of The Moss, You'll See Toads, Small Insects, A Whole Host Of Life That Prospers In That Miniature Environment. A Lumberman Will Look At A Forest And See So Many Board Feet Of Lumber. I See A Living City.

People Still Do Not Understand That A Live Fish Is More Valuable Than A Dead One, And That Destructive Fishing Techniques Are Taking A Wrecking Ball To Biodiversity.

The Observations That Have Developed Over The Years Have Given Us Perspective About Where We Fit In. We Are Newcomers, Really Recent Arrivals On A Planet That Is Four And A Half Billion Years Old.