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Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.

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There’s something missing about how we’re informing the youngsters coming along about what matters in the world. We teach them the numbers and the letters, but we fail to communicate the importance of our connection to the living world.
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