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?
SYLVIA EARLEHealth 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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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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The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.
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Any astronaut can tell you you’ve got to do everything you can to learn about your life support system and then do everything you can to take care of it.
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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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We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.
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Health to the ocean means health for us.
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We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.
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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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Health to the ocean means health for us.
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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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When I arrived on the planet, there were only two billion. Wildlife was more abundant, we were less so; now the situation is reversed.
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They are so beautiful, a pair is in the Museum of Modern Art. The set I have are ruby red. I call them my ruby flippers.
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I am not in any hurry to grow up.
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I have lots of heroes: anyone and everyone who does whatever they can to leave the natural world better than they found it.
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