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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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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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No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea.
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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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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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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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Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value encourages drilling without taking into account the costs to the ocean, even without major spills.
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I personally have stopped eating seafood.
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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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My first encounter with the ocean was on the Jersey Shore when I was three years old and I got knocked over by a wave.
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