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.
SYLVIA EARLEFar and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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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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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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Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica.
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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.
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Photosynthetic organisms in the sea yield most of the oxygen in the atmosphere, take up and store vast amounts of carbon dioxide, shape planetary chemistry, and hold the planet steady.
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I personally have stopped eating seafood.
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Every fish fertilizes the water in a way that generates the plankton that ultimately leads back into the food chain, but also yields oxygen, grabs carbon – it’s a part of what makes the ocean function and what makes the planet function.
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I find the lure of the unknown irresistible.
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Health to the ocean means health for us.
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Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe.
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You should be afraid if you are in the ocean and don’t see sharks.
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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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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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My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.
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It’s akin to using a bulldozer to catch a butterfly, destroying a whole ecosystem for the sake of a few pounds of protein. We wouldn’t do this on land, so why do it in the oceans?
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