No Creature On Earth Ever Has Organized

Historically, Girls Have Not Been Encouraged To Be Scientists, To Be Explorers, And There's A Social Kind Of Constraint, Of Course. Having The Responsibility, A Disproportionate Part Of The Responsibility, For Caring For Families, Caring For Children. I Know This Challenge From Firsthand Experience Because I Have Three Children And Four Grandsons.and Some Of The Time I Have Spent As A Scientist And As An Explorer Has Meant Choosing To Not Be With My Children And Grandchildren As Much As I Might Otherwise Have Done Had I Not Been A Scientist, An Explorer.

I Hope For Your Help To Explore And Protect The Wild Ocean In Ways That Will Restore The Health And, In So Doing, Secure Hope For Humankind. Health To The Ocean Means Health For Us.

The Ocean Is Dying, And We Have No Place To Escape To If This Experiment Doesn't Go In Our Favor.

If Darwin Could See What We Now See, What We Now Know About The Ocean, About The Atmosphere, About The Nature Of Life, As We Now Understand It, About The Importance Of Microbes - I Think He Would Just Beam With Joy That Many Of The Thoughts And The Glimpses Of The Majesty Of Life On Earth That He Had During His Life, Now Magnified Many Times Over.

We Have Found Ways To Capture, Kill And Market Ocean Wildlife On An Unprecedented Scale. It's An Absolute Catastrophe.