This week I found both readings to be pretty interesting because I feel like I have taken classes on a variety of the oceanic topics pertaining to the currents, winds, the amount of energy each possess, and how together they can impact food chains, coastlines, and much more. The main points of these papers are to shift away from our land-oriented/terracentric perspective of history to be inclusive of (if not centered around) our oceans. I personally like this idea and mindset because when thinking of the past it prompts consideration for the future. As stated in the reading, this perspective shift has already started to reinforce and make way for trends promoting responsibility towards our oceans and impacts on climate. What was both reinforcing of this concept and personally empowering was when the author says, “[t]o capitalize Ocean is to challenge the conventional wisdom that the seas can be taken for granted. They cannot.” (Roorda, page 4).  When we take a step back and consider everything that has been happening with the history of our oceans we can see some incredible correlations relating to climate change. The ocean holds a vast amount of the carbon we emit and is supposed to to an extent, but when it captures too much it starts impacting the shells of many animals and creatures at the bottom of the food chain. This can then throw off what balance there is in the food chain and is all rather visible through studying oceanic patterns/trends. If we can encourage and pass on this perspective change to future generations, we can start proactively making amends to our lifestyles that are not conducive of a sustainable future which is what I believe the author might have been trying to prompt in the readers. One way or the other, I am on board and support this view!