Green’ issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security.
SYLVIA EARLETake 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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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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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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I personally have stopped eating seafood.
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Health to the ocean means health for us.
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Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.
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There’s something missing about how we’re informing the youngsters coming along about what matters in the world. We teach them the numbers and the letters, but we fail to communicate the importance of our connection to the living world.
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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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Anything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always come to our doorstep.
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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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All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class – which wasn’t such a bad deal.
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No water, no life. No blue, no green.
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You don’t stand around arguing about who’s responsible, or who’s going to pay.
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My mother was known as the ‘bird lady’ of the neighborhood.
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A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.
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Health to the ocean means health for us.
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