And there’s no question that it is a factor, but it’s preceded by the loss of resilience and degradation.
SYLVIA EARLEWe need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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Health to the ocean means health for us.
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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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Hold up a mirror and ask yourself what you are capable of doing, and what you really care about. Then take the initiative – don’t wait for someone else to ask you to act.
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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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Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss.
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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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No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea.
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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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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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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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Is a slow but accelerating impact with consequences that will greatly overshadow all the oil spills put together. The warming trend that is CO2-related will overshadow all the oil spills that have ever occurred put together.
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No water, no life. No blue, no green.
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Anything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always come to our doorstep.
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We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return.
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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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