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The Living Ocean Drives Planetary Chemistry, Governs Climate And Weather, And Otherwise Provides The Cornerstone Of The Life-support System For All Creatures On Our Planet, From Deep-sea Starfish To Desert Sagebrush. That's Why The Ocean Matters. If The Sea Is Sick, We'll Feel It. If It Dies, We Die. Our Future And The State Of The Oceans Are One.

The Burning Of Fossil Fuels Has Altered The Amount Of Carbon Dioxide In The Atmosphere So Rapidly And So Abundantly That Now, We Are Driving Not Just The Warming Trend, Not Just The Sea Level Rise That Is A Consequence Of The Warming Trend That Is Melting Polar Ice And Alpine Ice, But Also [ocean Acidification].

Ironically The Very Energy, The Very Basis Of How We Know What We Know, Has Been Reliant On Having An Energy Source [necessary] To Build Rockets To Go To The Moon And Mars, To Support Airplanes That Fly, And Satellites To Give Us Our Communication.

The Very Energy Sources That Have Gotten Us To Where We Are Now Are Also, If We Continue Doing What We're Doing, A Shortcut To The End Of All That We Hold Near And Dear.

Nearly All Of The Major Kinds Of Life, Divisions Of Life, Phyla Of Animals, Occur In The Sea. Only About Half Of Them Can Make It To Land Or Freshwater.