Editor’s Letter: Think Global, Act Local

It was more than half my lifetime ago now, but I still remember gliding over the Pacific on the 45-minute catamaran ride from the Queensland town of Cairnes to Green Island. Desert-bred girl that I was, I’d never seen such azure waters, nor imagined the twisting forests of coral beneath, expanding ever outward. I swam, I snorkeled, I reached to touch schools of brightly colored fish, I got a wicked sunburn. And I soon learned, painfully, that all the beautiful, gnarled coral cuts like razo