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Green’ issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security.

Sylvia Earle

They have a lateral line down their whole body that senses motion, but maybe it does more than that.
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Body Down Dream Lateral Like Line One Sense Shape Whole
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
The sudden release of five million barrels of oil, enormous quantities of methane and two million gallons of toxic dispersants into an already greatly stressed Gulf of Mexico will permanently alter the nature of the area.
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Area Barrel Country Dispersant Enormous Five Gallon Gulg Million Permanent Quantities Release Sudden
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
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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Degradation Factor Los No Preceded Question Resilience There
I’ve had the joy of spending thousands of hours under the sea. I wish I could take people along to see what I see, and to know what I know.
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Hour I Joy Kow People Sea Spend Take Thousand Under What Wish
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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Base End Garbage Life Nuclear Reach Sewage Ship Studge Useful Waste
Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat.
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Few Land Mature Meat One Plant Pound Produce Quickly Rear Relatively Take
You don’t stand around arguing about who’s responsible, or who’s going to pay.
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Argue Arong Go Pay Responsible Stand
We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.
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Care Dependent Do Live Need Ocean Respect Take Them They
I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and, in so doing, secure hope for humankind.
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Do Explore Health Help Hope Humankind Ocean Protect Restore Secure Wild
You should be afraid if you are in the ocean and don’t see sharks.
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Afraid Not Ocean Seen Shark Should You
With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected to the sea.
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Breath Connect Drink Drop Every Sea Take Water
Ocean acidification – the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid.
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Acid Acidification Atmosphere Carbon Dioxide Excess Increase Ocean Turn
I would love to slip into the skin of a fish and know what it’s like to be one. They have senses that I can only dream about.
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Dream Fish Like Love One Only Sense Slip Would
There are some who would like to see the oil rigs removed right down to the ground once their job is done, and there are others, and I count myself among them, who think that once they are in place they begin to be adopted by life in the ocean as a habitat.
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Done Down Ground Job Oil Once Remove Rig Right See Some These Who Would

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