Greater Caribbean Energy and Environment Foundation, Inc.

Every year in the U.S. A. alone another half million acres of coastline is destroyed. Add this to the half of the world's coastline already destroyed and you have a planet that should be hospitalized in intensive care.

We are asking you to help us make a breakthrough into the conscience of people. The breakthrough is successful action. When people know things can be done they have hope and they will act.

Every year an area of primary forest about the size of Kansas is forever lost. The world's fish harvest decreases by about one third every ten years. Many important species have already disappeared; many others are endangered.

Meanwhile millions of children die every year of protein malnutrition. Millions more grow up severely retarded mentally and physically needing simple health care or better nutrition.

These are great tragedies. But the greater tragedy is that the technology exists to remedy all these disasters, though the knowledge and the will to respond are lacking.

We must change our thinking and our awareness. It is too late to simply react to each global environmental crisis. In order to save our planet, our ocean and all the creatures who live in it, including us, the World Commission on Development and the Environment reports that  "We must immediately move from reactive thinking to restoration, rehabilitation and prevention," former Prime Minister of Norway Gro Harlem Brundtland, chairperson of the World Commission  concluded  in "Our Common Future" .