If you think the ocean isn’t important, imagine Earth without it. Mars comes to mind. No ocean, no life support system.
SYLVIA EARLEThere are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There’s still time, but not a lot, to turn things around.
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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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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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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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The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder.
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Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss.
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They have curiosity. ‘Who, what, where, why, when, and how!’ They never stop asking questions, and I never stop asking questions, just like a five year old.
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Sharks are beautiful animals, and if you’re lucky enough to see lots of them, that means that you’re in a healthy ocean.
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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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You don’t stand around arguing about who’s responsible, or who’s going to pay.
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Places change over time with or without oil spills, but humans are responsible for the Deepwater Horizon gusher – and humans, as well as the corals, fish and other creatures, are suffering the consequences.
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America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference.
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Nearly all of the major kinds of life, divisions of life, phyla of animals, occur in the sea. Only about half of them can make it to land or freshwater.
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When I write a scientific treatise, I might reach 100 people. When the ‘National Geographic’ covers a project, it communicates about plants and fish and underwater technology to more than 10 million people.
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My first encounter with the ocean was on the Jersey Shore when I was three years old and I got knocked over by a wave.
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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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