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We Have Been Far Too Aggressive About Extracting Ocean Wildlife, Not Appreciating That There Are Limits And Even Points Of No Return.

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.

With Respect To The Ocean Being The Heart Of Our Blue Planet: We Are Often Asked, 'how Much Protection Is Enough?' We Can Only Answer With Another Question: How Much Of Your Heart Is Worth Protecting?

Like A Shipwreck Or A Jetty, Almost Anything That Forms A Structure In The Ocean, Whether It Is Natural Or Artificial Over Time, Collects Life.

We Humans Have This Idea That The Ocean Is So Big, So Vast, So Resilient That It Doesn't Matter What We Do To It. That May Have Been True 1,000 Years Ago. But In The Last 100, Especially The Last 50 Years, We Have Destroyed The Assets That Make Our Lives Possible.