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For heaven’s sake, when you see the enemy attacking, you pick up the pitchfork, and you enlist everybody you see.

Sylvia Earle

Places change over time with or without oil spills, but humans are responsible for the Deepwater Horizon gusher – and humans, as well as the corals, fish and other creatures, are suffering the consequences.
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Change Consequences Deepwater For Gusher Horizon Human Oil Over Place Responsible Spills Time Without
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
Green’ issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security.
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Attention Attract Between Economy Environment Green Health Issue Last Security Serious
I personally have stopped eating seafood.
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Eat Have Personally Seafood Stop
There’s something missing about how we’re informing the youngsters coming along about what matters in the world. We teach them the numbers and the letters, but we fail to communicate the importance of our connection to the living world.
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Along Come How Informing Matter Mis Something Tyounester World
There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There’s still time, but not a lot, to turn things around.
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Around Belt Coral Few Good Harf Jeweled Middle Oyster Planet Prety Shape Still Time Turn
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
The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn’t frightening, it was more exhilarating.
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Atten Certainly Exhilarating Freight More Ocean
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
Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.
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Age Come Coral Have Ice Persist Reef
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
No water, no life. No blue, no green.
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Blue Green Life No Water
I have come up at the end of a dive, and the boat was not where I left it. I had to take care of a buddy who did panic. But I was confident the boat would come back.
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Back Boat Buddy Care Come Confident Dive End Had Left Panic Take Where
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
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
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

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