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There’s no place that we know about that can support life as we know it, not even our sister planet, Mars, where we might set up housekeeping someday, but at great effort and trouble we have to recreate the things we take for granted here.

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The fragility, and even the degradation of our planet’s blue heart.

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The fragility, and even the degradation of our planet’s blue heart.
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Blue Degradation Even Fragility Our
I am not in any hurry to grow up.

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I am not in any hurry to grow up.
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Any Grow Up Hurry Nit
Photosynthetic organisms in the sea yield most of the oxygen in the atmosphere, take up and store vast amounts of carbon dioxide, shape planetary chemistry, and hold the planet steady.

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Photosynthetic organisms in the sea yield most of the oxygen in the atmosphere, take up and store vast amounts of carbon dioxide, shape planetary chemistry, and hold the planet steady.
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Carbon Chemistry Dioxide Most Organism Oxygen Photosynthesis Planetary See Store Take Vast Yield
Every fish fertilizes the water in a way that generates the plankton that ultimately leads back into the food chain, but also yields oxygen, grabs carbon – it’s a part of what makes the ocean function and what makes the planet function.
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Back Carbon Every Fertilize Generate Grap Oxygen Plankton Ultimately Way
We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return.
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Aggressive Been Extracting Point Return Too Wildlife
Nearly all of the major kinds of life, divisions of life, phyla of animals, occur in the sea. Only about half of them can make it to land or freshwater.

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Nearly all of the major kinds of life, divisions of life, phyla of animals, occur in the sea. Only about half of them can make it to land or freshwater.
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Divison Freshwater Half Major Make Nearly Only
I find the lure of the unknown irresistible.
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Did Irresistible Lure Unknown
Some experts look at global warming, increased world temperature, as the critical tipping point that is causing a crash in coral reef health around the world.

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Some experts look at global warming, increased world temperature, as the critical tipping point that is causing a crash in coral reef health around the world.
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Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss.

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Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss.
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Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.

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Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.
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People still do not understand that a live fish is more valuable than a dead one, and that destructive fishing techniques are taking a wrecking ball to biodiversity.

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People still do not understand that a live fish is more valuable than a dead one, and that destructive fishing techniques are taking a wrecking ball to biodiversity.
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All More Not One Still Take Valuable
To lose it means that we will dismember the vital systems that make the Arctic work. It’s not just a cost to the people who live there. It’s a cost to all people everywhere.
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The concept of ‘peak oil’ has penetrated the hearts and minds of people concerned about energy for the future. ‘Peak fish’ occurred around the end of the 1980s.

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The concept of ‘peak oil’ has penetrated the hearts and minds of people concerned about energy for the future. ‘Peak fish’ occurred around the end of the 1980s.
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On a sea floor that looks like a sandy mud bottom, that at first glance might appear to be sand and mud, when you look closely and sit there as I do for a while and just wait, all sorts of creatures show themselves, with little heads popping out of the sand. It is a metropolis.

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On a sea floor that looks like a sandy mud bottom, that at first glance might appear to be sand and mud, when you look closely and sit there as I do for a while and just wait, all sorts of creatures show themselves, with little heads popping out of the sand. It is a metropolis.
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Appear Button Closely First Floor Glance Must Nud Sandy Sort Themselves
They are so beautiful, a pair is in the Museum of Modern Art. The set I have are ruby red. I call them my ruby flippers.

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They are so beautiful, a pair is in the Museum of Modern Art. The set I have are ruby red. I call them my ruby flippers.
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When I arrived on the planet, there were only two billion. Wildlife was more abundant, we were less so; now the situation is reversed.

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When I arrived on the planet, there were only two billion. Wildlife was more abundant, we were less so; now the situation is reversed.
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