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I’m not against extracting a modest amount of wildlife out of the ocean for human consumption, but I am really concerned about the large-scale industrial fishing that engages in destructive practices like trawling and longlining.

Sylvia Earle

We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.
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Alter Become Effective Fright Nature
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
It’s a fact of life that there will be oil spills, as long as oil is moved from place to place, but we must have provisions to deal with them, and a capability that is commensurate with the size of the oil shipments.
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Capability Commensurate Deal Fact Life Long Move Oil Place Provision Shipments Size Spill
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
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
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
I am not in any hurry to grow up.
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Any Grow Up Hurry Nit
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
America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference.
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Country Freedom Gain Goal Government Great Individual Interface Most Personal Pursue Undue
Bottom trawling is a ghastly process that brings untold damage to sea beds that support ocean life.
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Bed Being Both Bottom Damage Ghastly Life Ocean Process Sea Support Trawling Untold
Large areas of the Gulf have escaped being scraped by trawls, crushed by more than 40,000 miles of pipelines, or displaced by one of 50,000 oil and gas wells drilled since the middle of the 20th century. Some places have been deliberately protected.
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Area Century Crush Displace Drilled Escape Gas Gulf Large Middle Mile More Pipeline Scrap Since
I find the lure of the unknown irresistible.
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Did Irresistible Lure Unknown
Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss.
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Bark Look Moss Redwood See
The Exxon Valdez spill triggered a swift and strong response that changed policies about shipping, about double-hulled construction. A number of laws came into place.
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Change Construction Double Exxon Hulled Policy Response Ship Spill Strong Triggered Valdez
A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.
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Board City Feet Forest Live Look Lumberman Many See Tumbler Will
When I first ventured into the Gulf of Mexico in the 1950s, the sea appeared to be a blue infinity too large, too wild to be harmed by anything that people could do.
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Anything Aperaed Blue Country First Gulg Har Infinity Large Wind Sea Special Target The Venture When Y

I’m not against extracting a modest amount of wildlife out of the ocean for human consumption, but I am really concerned about the large-scale industrial fishing that engages in destructive practices like trawling and longlining.

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I’m not against extracting a modest amount of wildlife out of the ocean for human consumption, but I am really concerned about the large-scale industrial fishing that engages in destructive practices like trawling and longlining.

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