Green’ issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security.
SYLVIA EARLEThe fragility, and even the degradation of our planet’s blue heart.
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Large areas of the Gulf have escaped being scraped by trawls, crushed by more than 40,000 miles of pipelines, or displaced by one of 50,000 oil and gas wells drilled since the middle of the 20th century. Some places have been deliberately protected.
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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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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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Anything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always come to our doorstep.
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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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Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss.
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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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America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference.
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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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When I first ventured into the Gulf of Mexico in the 1950s, the sea appeared to be a blue infinity too large, too wild to be harmed by anything that people could do.
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I love music of all kinds, but there’s no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laughing; my kids, too.
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The Arctic is a place that historically, during all preceding human history, has largely been an icy realm with an impact on ocean currents.
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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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By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many other large creatures that prospered in the Gulf for millions of years had been depleted by overfishing.
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Health to the ocean means health for us.
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