What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.
SYLVIA EARLEThat, in turn, influences the temperature of the planet. The Arctic is now vulnerable because of the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, with a rate of melting that is stunning.
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As if the ocean somehow doesn’t matter or is so big, so vast that it can take care of itself, or that there is nothing that we could possibly do that we could harm the ocean.
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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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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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If somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage.
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Anything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always come to our doorstep.
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I love music of all kinds, but there’s no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laughing; my kids, too.
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My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.
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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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They have a lateral line down their whole body that senses motion, but maybe it does more than that.
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We wouldn’t be able to survive. We would have a hard time surviving if we were transported to the time when dinosaurs were around.
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Every time I slip into the ocean, it’s like going home.
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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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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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Health to the ocean means health for us.
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We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.
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