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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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And there’s no question that it is a factor, but it’s preceded by the loss of resilience and degradation.
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Every time I slip into the ocean, it’s like going home.
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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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What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.
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Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It’s agriculture. It’s golf courses. It’s domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately, where does it go? Downstream into the gulf.
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We did not want, from garbage and nuclear wastes to sludge from sewage to entire ships that had reached the end of their useful life.
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If somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage.
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Bottom trawling is a ghastly process that brings untold damage to sea beds that support ocean life.
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