Humans Have Always Wondered The Big Questions,

The Earth Is A Tiny Blue Speck In A Universe Of Unfriendly Options.

Our Insatiable Appetite For Fossil Fuels And The Corporate Mandate To Maximize Shareholder Value Encourages Drilling Without Taking Into Account The Costs To The Ocean, Even Without Major Spills.

Childcare Is A Huge Issue For Young Women Whose Work May Require Them To Leave Their Families For Weeks At A Time.

People I Know Who Succeed Don't Mind Working. Those Who Are Competent Seem To Like Doing Things Well -- Not Stopping Because They Haven't Accomplished What They Wanted To On The First Go-round. They're Willing To Do It Twenty Times, If Necessary. There's An Illusion That The Good People Can Easily Do Something, And It's Not Necessarily True. They're Just Determined To Do It Right. I Was Impressed By Hearing One Of The Women At Radcliffe Talk About Writing A Poem, How Many Revisions A Single Poem Sometimes Has To Go Through -- Fifty Or Sixty Revisions To Come Out With A Poem Sixteen Lines Long.

It Isn't Too Late To Shift From The Swift, Sharp Decline Of Ocean Systems In Recent Decades To An Era Of Steady Recovery. There Is Time, And There Is A Growing Awareness, Which Is The Best Way To Counter Indifference. People Who Know Might Care.