Name: A song inspired by the ocean
Uploaded: 2011-04-08T22:28:00Z
Duration: 4 min 9 s
Description: Jackson Browne plays a song about being on the ocean ... or really, being anywhere among passionate friends. (He started writing this song aboard Mission Blue Voyage, a Sylvia Earle-inspired conference about saving the ocean.) "If I could be anywhere," he sings, "anywhere right now, I would be here."

Jackson Browne: A song inspired by the ocean

A song inspired by the ocean

Jackson Browne plays a song about being on the ocean ... or really, being anywhere among passionate friends. (He started writing this song aboard Mission Blue Voyage, a Sylvia Earle-inspired conference about saving the ocean.) "If I could be anywhere," he sings, "anywhere right now, I would be here."

Human history is littered with empires that rose and fell, but the plastic we throw away today outlasts them all. Every piece of plastic ever made still exists, haunting our oceans and endangering our future. The song urges listeners to recognize the urgent need for action, insisting that real change must happen now to protect the planet. If the oceans fail, so do we.