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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

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
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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Fish Hundred might Million People Reason Scientific Technology Ten Treatise Underwater Write
The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn’t frightening, it was more exhilarating.
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Atten Certainly Exhilarating Freight More Ocean
We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.
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Alter Become Effective Fright Nature
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
Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value encourages drilling without taking into account the costs to the ocean, even without major spills.
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Account Appetite Corporate Cost Encourage Fossil Fuel Major Mandate Maximize Ocean Shareholder Spill Value
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
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
What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.
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Against Fish Once Use Used War Weapon
There’s no place that we know about that can support life as we know it, not even our sister planet, Mars, where we might set up housekeeping someday, but at great effort and trouble we have to recreate the things we take for granted here.
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Effort Even Grant Great Housekeep Lace Life Mars Planet Recreate Set Sister Support Think Trouble
To lose it means that we will dismember the vital systems that make the Arctic work. It’s not just a cost to the people who live there. It’s a cost to all people everywhere.
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Arctic Cost Diameter Everywhere Lose Mean People System Vital Work
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
In terms of personal choices, let’s all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.
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All Assess Carefully Choice Future Get Imagine Let More Our Past Personal Protein Reflect Term Think
Take away the ice and snow, increase the temperature by even a little, and the realm that makes their lives possible literally melts away.
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Away Even Ice Increase Literally Little Live Make Melt Possible Show Take Temperature
Hold up a mirror and ask yourself what you are capable of doing, and what you really care about. Then take the initiative – don’t wait for someone else to ask you to act.
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Ask Capable Care Do Hold Initiative Mirror Really Take Up What Yourself
I have heard endlessly that fish are so resilient that there is no way that you could exterminate a species. We are learning otherwise.
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Could Endless Exterminate Fish Have Learn No Otherwise Resilient Species Way

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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