WAYNE LYNCH,

Do surfers have a responsibility to be stewards of the environment?

At whatever level you participate in surfing, surfers have such an amazingly unique life. It gives us so much. We’re so lucky when you look at the bigger picture of what goes on the world and the negative aspects of human life—whether it’s poverty, oppression or violence—then here we are, falling into this thing called surfing, and it’s just absolutely amazing what it gives us. It’s everything. We’re interacting as close as you can with the natural environment. If anybody should be aware of how special