Anything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always come to our doorstep.
SYLVIA EARLEIce ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.
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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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Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.
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In terms of personal choices, let’s all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.
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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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Any astronaut can tell you you’ve got to do everything you can to learn about your life support system and then do everything you can to take care of it.
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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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People still do not understand that a live fish is more valuable than a dead one, and that destructive fishing techniques are taking a wrecking ball to biodiversity.
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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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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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Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.
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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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They have a lateral line down their whole body that senses motion, but maybe it does more than that.
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There is a terribly terrestrial mindset about what we need to do to take care of the planet.
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Bottom trawling is a ghastly process that brings untold damage to sea beds that support ocean life.
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I actually love diving at night; you see a lot of fish then that you don’t see in the daytime.
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