As a marine biologist and policy nerd, building community around climate solutions is my life’s work. But I’m also a black person in the United State… - Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

there was this moment on a glass-bottom boat (when I was five). And to see a coral reef for the first time, and to see all of these magnificently colored fish swimming around, and to see this literal window into this other world — I was just in awe. And it’s this, like, whole city that’s happening down there, right? It’s not just these little sections where all the fish are the same. It’s this super vibrant and dynamic alternate universe — this ecosystem.

this is actually a huge problem with ocean philanthropy, too, is that people want to pay nonprofit groups to do the work to establish protected areas, but not to maintain them, not to enforce them, not to monitor them.

I think it’s so funny that people say it’s too expensive to solve climate change, because it’s just like, what’s your alternative?