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Any astronaut can tell you you’ve got to do everything you can to learn about your life support system and then do everything you can to take care of it.

Sylvia Earle

I’m friends with James Cameron. We’ve spent time together over the years because he is a diver and explorer and in his heart of hearts a biologist. We run into each other at scientific conferences.
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Biologist Diver Explore Friend Heart Occur People Person Spent Together Year
Health to the ocean means health for us.
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For Health Mean Ocean Us
When I write a scientific treatise, I might reach 100 people. When the ‘National Geographic’ covers a project, it communicates about plants and fish and underwater technology to more than 10 million people.
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Fish Hundred might Million People Reason Scientific Technology Ten Treatise Underwater Write
For humans, the Arctic is a harshly inhospitable place, but the conditions there are precisely what polar bears require to survive – and thrive. ‘Harsh’ to us is ‘home’ for them.
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Bear Condition Country Harsh Harshly Human Inhospitable People Place Polar Precise Require Survive Thrive
If we could magically transport ourselves back to the young Earth, when it was only a billion years old or two billion years old or three billion years old or four billion years old.
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Able Back Billio Earth Magical Old Ourselves Survive Transport Year Young
We have taken the manatees out of the areas in the Caribbean and really elsewhere in the world, and this disruption to the system makes such systems vulnerable to changes as they come by, whether it’s in terms of disease or terms or global warming for that matter.
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Area Believe Change Disruption Elsewhere Global Make Mandates Matter System Taken Vulnerable Warming World
The most important thing for people to know about the governance of the Arctic is that we have a chance now to act to maintain the integrity of the system or to lose it.
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Deal Fact Governance Integrity Long Lose Oil Place Provision Sprill System
Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they’ve spent time in and around the ocean, and they’ve personally seen the beauty.
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A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.
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America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference.
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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 Creature First Floor Glance Look Must Nud Sandy Sea Sort Themselves Wait
My first encounter with the ocean was on the Jersey Shore when I was three years old and I got knocked over by a wave.
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Encounter First Knock Ocean Old Over People Three Was Wave Year
If you think the ocean isn’t important, imagine Earth without it. Mars comes to mind. No ocean, no life support system.
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Earth Imagine Important IT Ocean Think Without
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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Abundant Arrive Billion Less More Planet Reverse Situation Two When Wildlife
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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Concept Concern Energy Future Heart Mind Peak Penetrate People
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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Arctic Cost Diameter Everywhere Lose Mean People System Vital Work

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