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I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and, in so doing, secure hope for humankind.

Sylvia Earle

Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.
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Away Far Greatest Ignorance Ocean Ourselves Sometimes Threat
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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Big Care Harm Itself Matter Nothing Ocean Possible Somehow Vast
It’s mainly the high-end luxury market now that drives much of the fishing in the sea. It’s not feeding the starving millions. It’s feeding a luxury market.
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Drive Feel Fish High Luxury Mainly Market Million Much Sea Starve
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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Anything Aperaed Blue Country First Gulg Har Infinity Large Wind Sea Special Target The Venture When Y
Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat.
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Few Land Mature Meat One Plant Pound Produce Quickly Rear Relatively Take
There 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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Around Belt Coral Few Good Harf Jeweled Middle Oyster Planet Prety Shape Still Time Turn
My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.
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Backyard Country Gulf Move My Parent Twelve
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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Art Beautiful Flipper Modern Museum Pair Red Ruby
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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Dream Fish Like Love One Only Sense Slip Would
The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.
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Before Century Commerce End Finish Fish Middle One Predict Twenty
The concept of ‘peak oil’ has penetrated the hearts and minds of people concerned about energy for the future. ‘Peak fish’ occurred around the end of the 1980s.
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Concept Concern Energy Future Heart Mind Peak Penetrate People
I’m friends with James Cameron. We’ve spent time together over the years because he is a diver and explorer and in his heart of hearts a biologist. We run into each other at scientific conferences.
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Biologist Diver Explore Friend Heart Occur People Person Spent Together Year
Some experts look at global warming, increased world temperature, as the critical tipping point that is causing a crash in coral reef health around the world.
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Cause Crash Critical Global Health Increase Look Point Reef Some Expert Temperature Tip Warming
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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Back Boat Buddy Care Come Confident Dive End Had Left Panic Take Where
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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Ask Curiosity Five Just Live Old Question Stop Year
We wouldn’t be able to survive. We would have a hard time surviving if we were transported to the time when dinosaurs were around.
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Able Around Dinosaur Hard Survive Time Transport Were

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