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SYLVIA EARLEThe end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.
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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 end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.
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Some experts look at global warming, increased world temperature, as the critical tipping point that is causing a crash in coral reef health around the world.
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Ocean acidification – the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid.
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What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.
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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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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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There is a terribly terrestrial mindset about what we need to do to take care of the planet.
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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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The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn’t frightening, it was more exhilarating.
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The most important thing for people to know about the governance of the Arctic is that we have a chance now to act to maintain the integrity of the system or to lose it.
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There are some who would like to see the oil rigs removed right down to the ground once their job is done, and there are others, and I count myself among them, who think that once they are in place they begin to be adopted by life in the ocean as a habitat.
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Health to the ocean means health for us.
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If we could magically transport ourselves back to the young Earth, when it was only a billion years old or two billion years old or three billion years old or four billion years old.
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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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