A public commenter urged global action to restore the ocean and highlighted the United Nations' UN Ocean Conference in Nice as an opportunity to accelerate cooperation, saying, "Now is the time to save our ocean."

The commenter framed the ocean as a foundational resource for humanity, noting it sustains billions of people and provides oxygen and carbon sequestration. They said, in part, "The ocean is our planet's life support, our source for nourishment. We rely on the ocean for food, transport, and trade, sustaining over 3,000,000,000 people worldwide." The commenter also said the ocean "generates half of the oxygen we need."

The speaker warned that marine ecosystems face multiple threats — plastics, pollution, chemical contamination, rising temperatures, ocean acidification, rising sea levels and collapsing fish stocks — and said restoration efforts must grow. They listed examples of work already under way, including coral restoration, industry regulations, international collaborations, and scientific and technological innovation, and urged broader participation from governments, businesses, Indigenous peoples, youth, investors and scientists.

The commenter emphasized both the scale of the ocean's value and the scope of the challenges, saying the ocean is home to "nearly a million known species" and much more that remains unknown. They framed the UN Ocean Conference in Nice as a venue to "unite to accelerate global action to conserve and sustainably use the ocean."