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The threats facing our ocean are significant, but throughout human history we have shown our ability to overcome seemingly insurmountable challenges. Especially ones of our own making.

More people than ever before are aware of the challenges facing our ocean. If we can show that change is possible, and actively create ways to include people who may not ordinarily have felt welcome, then we have a realistic chance of saving our ocean.

The ocean isn't something distant to be saved, we are our ocean and caring for it starts with caring for ourselves.

People readily expressed an understanding that our ocean was under threat and were concerned as a result. But this concern was for the ocean as a separate entity - a mild sadness that distant coral reefs were dying, rather than any understanding of how the ocean crisis will impact us all.

Pleasantly surprised she's included how beaches/coastal areas can be off-putting for PoC especially south asians/visibly Muslim lol. I remember how we looked at reviews to see whether people had experienced racism there. Imagine gatekeeping a public area... gross and racist.

Even in the UK, an island nation where you are never more than seventy miles from the coast, one in five children have never seen the sea.

We'll never get back all we have lost but that doesn't mean that we can't aim for something differently wonderful.

Marine conservation isn't just diving on coral reefs or monitoring sea turtles. For the most part, it's the influencing of better policies and practices across all sectors of society. Attending a municipal meeting is not as Instagrammable as snaps from a tropical beach but its impact for our ocean can be off the charts.

Ocean protection isn’t about excluding people, it’s about empowering people to be ocean stewards with the right laws, funding, tools and support.

This plastic is killing ocean wildlife. It causes pain, suffering and death as creatures of all sizes ingest or get entangled in it. Scientists have even identified the first-ever plastic-caused disease, Plasticosis, where pieces of plastic cause internal injuries in seabirds.

Horrifying

Some experts have suggested that by 2050 plastic will outweigh fish in the sea

people use DYNAMITE to kill fish? What on earth

- The ocean is the planet’s largest carbon store and absorbs over a third of our CO2 emissions. Heat from greenhouse gases is warming the ocean and making it more acidic

Left in the ocean, Antarctic krill is not just penguin and whale food, it also removes up to 12 billion tons of carbon a year from the atmosphere.

The ocean soundtrack is the most amazing composition I've ever heard; but with each passing year, it's sounding more off-beat and more out-of-tune. Every species makes a difference. Every species matters.

Shifting Baseline Syndrome is the gradual change in what we consider as the normal condition of the natural world, and it comes about due to a lack of experience, memory and/or knowledge of its past condition.