It’s a fact of life that there will be oil spills, as long as oil is moved from place to place, but we must have provisions to deal with them, and a capability that is commensurate with the size of the oil shipments.
SYLVIA EARLEI 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.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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Anything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always come to our doorstep.
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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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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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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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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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Green’ issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security.
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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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Bottom trawling is a ghastly process that brings untold damage to sea beds that support ocean life.
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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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Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss.
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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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The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn’t frightening, it was more exhilarating.
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With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected to the sea.
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I’m not against extracting a modest amount of wildlife out of the ocean for human consumption, but I am really concerned about the large-scale industrial fishing that engages in destructive practices like trawling and longlining.
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My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.
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