Hanging in the blue, I waited. Dark and ominous shadows flitted on the very limit of visibility. Every now and again a distinctive torpedo shaped entity would enter my visual range, just for a split second and then disappear. My exhaled bubbles were my only company. Enclosed in SCUBA gear one becomes so much more focused on sound. It's all around, and within. The sheer weight of water acting on the reef gives that continuous crackling sound, like a barely audible recording of bubble wrap being rolled between one's hands. Every now and again I would be aware of my tinnitus, that age old steam release valve from a past life. And still I waited. They should be here by now. Looking skyward I nodded communication with my safety snorkeler, Keith. He shrugged his wiry South African frame as if to say "Still nothing here Bru"... It was one of the few days waiting to film Tiger Sharks just south of Durban, South Africa, that we ended up getting skunked. It just goes to underline nothing is guaranteed in life I guess.

What will you tell your children, or grandchildren, when they ask what you did to ensure they have a healthy World to live in?

Taking that sense of guarantees. Doesn't it seem perverse that of late we're seeing increasing evidence on just how much the future of our planet is being decided by those who do the most damage to it? With all the evidence of the detriment being done to our planet, our home, the governments and fossil fuel industry 'leaders' continue to make plans not just to embrace what they already have but are also eyeing up massive expansion plans to boot. Case in point Australia! So back to those guarantees. There are no guarantees for example that my son, Joshua, will be able to one day, as I did, take off around Southern Africa in a beaten up old Land Rover in search of wildlife and adventures.

There are no guarantees that my son, Joshua, will be able to strap on SCUBA tanks and plop into the crystal clear waters of tropical Micronesian reef channels, taking refuge from strong Ocean currents behind rocks and reef walls waiting for fleets of Manta Rays to park overhead. No guarantees that he will be able to take to the skies in a microlight, as both his Mother and I have done, as a way to see the rugged Dolphin Coast in South Africa. There are no guarantees that my 8yr old son, Joshua, or anyone of his generation will even have anything closely approaching the kind of naturally diverse and wildlife abundant world similar to the one I have been fortunate enough to grow old, and cynical, in. There are no guarantees.

What awaits those with an explorers heart?

I believe it is the birthright of every person on this planet to have a Clean And Sustainable Earth in which to stride out. A #CASEforHumanity as I call it. A place where the quality and condition of one's environment shouldn't become an increasing bone of contention when it comes to the negative health impact it could have on any individual. A CASE for Humanity should be something we should never have to beg for, let alone putting up with being held to ransom for by a handful of corporate juggernauts. It's all well and good talking about all of this though. Words mean nothing unless they're backed up with actions. But how can anyone act in our current world where even peaceful protest is becoming illegal to an extent it's being sworn into law as such in places? To counter that I say "Don't protest, celebrate". Will governments then go on to ban those who gather to sing the praises of our natural Earth?

Without action there is nothing. There are words, plenty of words. Across the social media platform there are so many cries of 'Foul' when it comes to transgressions against our planet. The Oil Industry, deforestation of the Amazon, the massively expanding Coal extraction plans of so many governments and so on so forth. And "Yes" I'm guilty of being one of those who posts link after link of doom and gloom. It scares me to think that given the weight of negativity these days that people are simply learning to tune out of it. To selectively ignore the repetition of opinions of what beholds us as we aim this spinning rock we call 'Home' headlong into the biggest game of chicken man(kind) has ever faced.

So what are my ideals? How would I look to create a CASE for Humanity? What and how would I look at tackling the future of things? How would I suggest getting us back onto a positive tack? Personally I believe the focus should be on mending the planet. It would be nigh on impossible to hope that man(kind) in its entirety could get on the same page. That is simply untenable. There will always be those who are greedy, those too lazy to put in the work, those unable to shoulder the sacrifice. To those entities I say simply that they have a shelf life, as do we all. I'd like to think that the actions of some of us moving forward, and the positive repercussion from those actions could serve as a catalyst for future movements. If we show this action to be a viable and possible option then adopt it, fine tune it and implement it as a constantly evolving mechanism for change. "OK, so what do we get out of this"? some may ask. To that I would simply say that we've taken enough as it is. "Is the creating of a positive future for your children not reward enough"? What we do now, the actions we take, may not come to complete fruition in our lifetime but I believe we will see the start of positive change and that, for me, is reward enough. Mother Nature is incredibly resilient and some good should be seen in our children's futures if we start to act now.

My priorities, in no particular order, to provide a #CASEforHumanity. 

• The creation of a global engineering challenge to develop solar and renewable power technologies that have zero dependency on any fossil fuel exploitation.
• Once point A above has been developed a global drive to install national facilities and grids. Most will occupy desert locations on Earth, ie Sahara, Australian Outback, Gobi etc.
• A cut-off date for Fossil Fuel extraction to cease. All taps, well heads and coal faces to be rendered closed and checked safe at the expense of the relevant industries
• Fossil Fuel Industries to pay for the construction of a global network of Plasma Gasification plants to rid the World of Plastic Waste.
• Immediate ceasing of all deforestation. We've taken enough.
• Initiate a global tree planting drive.
• To implement renewable power options for all terrestrial transportation, aviation and space exploration.
• Massive investment in agricultural development and technology, vertical farming etc
• Abolition of the farmed animal industry.
• A limitation on brands within the Fashion Industry to releasing one sole annual collection
• An end to 'Cultural' practices such as the 'Grind' of the Faroe Islands where wildlife is unnecessarily slaughtered. No 'right of passage' should rely on such abhorrent bloodshed.
• An end to the industrial fishing industry. Limitations on vessel size and quotas to be introduced for local fishing infrastructures.

Green natural defenses of our living areas, just how nature intended. Mangroves also serve as nursery areas for juvenile fish stocks.

And now to the big question; "Who pays for all of this"? Quite simply, we do. As a species we've plundered our planet for millennia. For the large part as consumers there has never been a second thought on the carbon footprint of our purchasing decisions. Single use plastics for the longest time were simply invisible to us. We took, and took more. Rarely, if ever, did we give back. I'll bet the majority of us, myself included, never gave a thought to the conditions of indigenous peoples living in the areas where the commodities we craved originated. In that vein it is often said that those who contribute the least to the effects of climate change tend to be the ones who experience the results of it the most. Spare a thought for them.

I believe those of us who really want to see change can make a difference. I touched on it in my recent blog post 'Subscribe for Change'. A global movement of people willing to sacrifice a little in order to bring about change. We can't put a price on a dying planet, but if enough people out there really care we can at least attempt to do what the political 'leaders' and rabid fossil fuel industry stalwarts simply seem reluctant to do. That is to direct massive spending in areas that need direct and fast financial investment.

All assets and industries stemming from this effort would then be placed as ownership of all people within a Charter for Humanity. So many people I've encountered in so many groups and social media platforms have given up hope in the qualities that need to exists between us all in order for something like this to work. Qualities such as Trust, Unity and Vision. Are we so lost as a species that we would readily consign ourself to failure rather than trust someone, a movement and drive for the better? I'd love to be proven wrong and be shown that enough of us still retain such qualities. Enough of us to make a difference that is. Once we learn to get over the human aspect of greed good things can and will happen. We have just got to take that leap of faith in man. And by all signals we don't really have that much time left to make that decision.

I for one want to have the chance to say to my 8yr old son, Joshua, that "Yes, we can one day head to the plains of Africa, the Jungles of the Amazon or the reef walls of Micronesia to sit and wonder at the greatness of it all"... but is making a CASE for Humanity just a dream?

"Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course".

Ban Ki-moon - Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 2007 to December 2016