The Arctic Is An Ocean. The Southern

Knowledge Is The Key To Making A Difference.

We Have An Atmosphere That Is Roughly 21% Oxygen. The Rest Of It Is Largely Nitrogen. There's Just Enough Carbon Dioxide (co2) To Drive Photosynthesis. That Has Been, Throughout The History Of Our Species, Pretty Stable. Until Recently.

Santa Monica Bay Is Less Polluted Today Than When I First Moved To The Area In The 1970s, Because Actions Have Been Taken To Avoid Putting Some Of The Noxious Materials Into The Sea. I Think People Are More Aware Than They Once Were, The Air Is Cleaner, Water Generally Is, In Spite Of The Fact That There Are More People.

We Still Have The Illusion That The Ocean Will Recover. That Even If We Do Have To Lose Sharks, People Don't Understand Why This Matters. The Evidence Is In Front Of Us, And We Fail To Take It In And Say, "now I Get It. Now I Understand."

There Is A Terribly Terrestrial Mindset About What We Need To Do To Take Care Of The Planet-as If The Ocean Somehow Doesn't Matter Or Is So Big, So Vast That It Can Take Care Of Itself, Or That There Is Nothing That We Could Possibly Do That We Could Harm The Ocean...we Are Learning Otherwise.