By Coby Lim, MEng ’23 (CEE)
This op-ed is recognized as the Best Call to Action in the annual Berkeley MEng op-ed contest and part of a series from E295: Communications for Engineering Leaders. In this course, Master of Engineering students were challenged to communicate a topic they found interesting to a broad audience of technical and non-technical readers. As an opinion piece, the views shared here are neither an expression of nor endorsed by UC Berkeley or the Fung Institute.


“I eventually realized that it meant that if we were to understand and care for our planet, we would have to understand and care for our oceans.”So if you’re one of us looking to do something to save our planet, I urge you to not overlook our waters. I urge you to fall in love, like I have, in the ocean. Go to the beach. Feel the sand crunch beneath your feet. Take a dip. Dive in. See the corals. Drift with the currents. When you fall in love with the Blue, you’ll want to understand it more. Then you and I can both care if it rains on our oceans.
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