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The sudden release of five million barrels of oil, enormous quantities of methane and two million gallons of toxic dispersants into an already greatly stressed Gulf of Mexico will permanently alter the nature of the area.

Sylvia Earle

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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Animal Beautiful Enough Healthy Lot Lucky Mean Ocean Shark Them
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
I personally have stopped eating seafood.
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Eat Have Personally Seafood Stop
We have taken the manatees out of the areas in the Caribbean and really elsewhere in the world, and this disruption to the system makes such systems vulnerable to changes as they come by, whether it’s in terms of disease or terms or global warming for that matter.
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Area Believe Change Disruption Elsewhere Global Make Mandates Matter System Taken Vulnerable Warming World
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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Hour I Joy Kow People Sea Spend Take Thousand Under What Wish
The fragility, and even the degradation of our planet’s blue heart.
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Blue Degradation Even Fragility Heart Our Planet
I love my Force Fins, which are the kind of fins Special Forces use and really are adapted from the fins of fish. They’re very efficient.
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Adapt Fin Fish Force Kind Love Really Special Use
You don’t stand around arguing about who’s responsible, or who’s going to pay.
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Argue Arong Go Pay Responsible Stand
There is a terribly terrestrial mindset about what we need to do to take care of the planet.
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Mindset Need Planet Take Care Terrestrial Terrible
For humans, the Arctic is a harshly inhospitable place, but the conditions there are precisely what polar bears require to survive – and thrive. ‘Harsh’ to us is ‘home’ for them.
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Bear Condition Country Harsh Harshly Human Inhospitable People Place Polar Precise Require Survive Thrive
Just as we have the power to harm the ocean, we have the power to put in place policies and modify our own behavior in ways that would be an insurance policy for the future of the sea, for the creatures there, and for us, protecting special critical areas in the ocean.
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Behaviour Harm Have Just Modify Ocean Place Policy Power Put Way
We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.
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Alter Become Effective Fright Nature
Anything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always come to our doorstep.
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Always Anything Come Creature Doorstep Found Injured Somebody Unusual
On a sea floor that looks like a sandy mud bottom, that at first glance might appear to be sand and mud, when you look closely and sit there as I do for a while and just wait, all sorts of creatures show themselves, with little heads popping out of the sand. It is a metropolis.
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Appear Button Closely Creature First Floor Glance Look Must Nud Sandy Sea Sort Themselves Wait
Like a shipwreck or a jetty, almost anything that forms a structure in the ocean, whether it is natural or artificial over time, collects life.
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Almost Always Anything Artificial Collect Form Jetty Life Like Natural Ocean Over Shipwreck Structure Time
There are some who would like to see the oil rigs removed right down to the ground once their job is done, and there are others, and I count myself among them, who think that once they are in place they begin to be adopted by life in the ocean as a habitat.
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Done Down Ground Job Oil Once Remove Rig Right See Some These Who Would

The sudden release of five million barrels of oil, enormous quantities of methane and two million gallons of toxic dispersants into an already greatly stressed Gulf of Mexico will permanently alter the nature of the area.

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The sudden release of five million barrels of oil, enormous quantities of methane and two million gallons of toxic dispersants into an already greatly stressed Gulf of Mexico will permanently alter the nature of the area.

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