So we must become the source and inspiration of a new enlightenment, a promoter of concern, and a stimulus to action. To do this we need to highlight organic beauty and focus on areas of crisis. Water is an ideal core subject around which we can integrate so many important environmental issues, and from which we can explore biology. Water is vital to the future of life on earth and to the survival of humankind. We live on a waterworld.
Water is the cradle of life, it is where everything started.
It is also the last place on earth where humans still practice hunting and gathering on a vast scale. We are inextricably dependent on water, if we are ever to colonize other planets water will either have to be there, or provided by our then technologies. The oceans have been the scene of major changes in the world's geography. Continents have drifted from land masses totally unlike their present forms, these existed long before the southern tips of Africa and South America separated. Life, water born, was passed entirely in water for the early immense periods of global history, compared to which human existence is a mere blink in the eye of time.