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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

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
Just as we have the power to harm the ocean, we have the power to put in place policies and modify our own behavior in ways that would be an insurance policy for the future of the sea, for the creatures there, and for us, protecting special critical areas in the ocean.
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Behaviour Harm Have Just Modify Ocean Place Policy Power Put Way
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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Agriculture Culture Downstream Drain Forty Gold Golf Lawn Mississippi Percent State Unit
Take away the ice and snow, increase the temperature by even a little, and the realm that makes their lives possible literally melts away.
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Away Even Ice Increase Literally Little Live Make Melt Possible Show Take Temperature
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 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
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
For heaven’s sake, when you see the enemy attacking, you pick up the pitchfork, and you enlist everybody you see.
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Attack Enemy Enlist Everybody Heaven Pick Pitchfork Sake See
Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss.
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Bark Look Moss Redwood See
There is a terribly terrestrial mindset about what we need to do to take care of the planet.
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Mindset Need Planet Take Care Terrestrial Terrible
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
I have heard endlessly that fish are so resilient that there is no way that you could exterminate a species. We are learning otherwise.
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Could Endless Exterminate Fish Have Learn No Otherwise Resilient Species Way
By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many other large creatures that prospered in the Gulf for millions of years had been depleted by overfishing.
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Century Creature Depleted End Gulf Large Many Million Ninty Other Overfishing Percent Prospered Shark Tuttle Whale Year
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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Animal Divison Freshwater Half Land Life Major Make Nearly Occur Only Sea
It’s mainly the high-end luxury market now that drives much of the fishing in the sea. It’s not feeding the starving millions. It’s feeding a luxury market.
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Drive Feel Fish High Luxury Mainly Market Million Much Sea Starve
Health to the ocean means health for us.
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For Health Ocean Us

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