Hawaii Quote by Mazie Hirono

There was a summer during which the whole South Shore of Oahu, you could see the bleached coral almost across all of the surfing…

— Brian Schatz

Coral reefs are under assault. They are rapidly being degraded by human activities. They are over-fished, bombed and poisoned. They are smothered by sediment,…

— Klaus Topfer

Hawaii feels so passionately about climate. You know, our oceans are warming. As a result, we have more ocean acidification and coral bleaching. You…

— Brian Schatz

There are ecosystems like coral reefs [at risk] through ocean acidification. Those are valuable things that we should protect.

— Bill Gates

In Hawaii, we understand that our way of life depends on a healthy ocean.

— Mazie Hirono

As the oceans get hotter, corals also become heat-stressed and expel the algae that live on their skeletons, resulting in coral bleaching events that…

— Barry Gardiner

The idea that we are not going to look after the Great Barrier Reef, which is just a wonderful tourism resource that it can…

— Campbell Newman

The Pacific coral reef, as a kind of oasis in a desert, can stand as an object lesson for man who must now learn…

— Eugene Odum

We need to do a better job of keeping oceans healthy.

— Sigourney Weaver

Most of the damage suffered by the ocean up until now has been caused by local insults - overfishing, pollution, and destruction of habitats.…

— Nancy Knowlton

Even our rules and regulations, our laws, our policies, favor the destructive nature of taking too much from the ocean and using techniques that…

— Sylvia Earle

If we don't preserve the oceans from nitrate runoff and plastic and chemicals, and if we don't preserve it from acidification, and if we…

— John F. Kerry