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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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For humans, the Arctic is a harshly inhospitable place, but the conditions there are precisely what polar bears require to survive – and thrive. ‘Harsh’ to us is ‘home’ for them.
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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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Bottom trawling is a ghastly process that brings untold damage to sea beds that support ocean life.
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We did not want, from garbage and nuclear wastes to sludge from sewage to entire ships that had reached the end of their useful life.
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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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Health to the ocean means health for us.
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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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Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It’s agriculture. It’s golf courses. It’s domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately, where does it go? Downstream into the gulf.
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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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Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost.
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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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The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.
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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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There’s no place that we know about that can support life as we know it, not even our sister planet, Mars, where we might set up housekeeping someday, but at great effort and trouble we have to recreate the things we take for granted here.
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