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.
SYLVIA EARLEYou don’t stand around arguing about who’s responsible, or who’s going to pay.
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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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Bottom trawling is a ghastly process that brings untold damage to sea beds that support ocean life.
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People still do not understand that a live fish is more valuable than a dead one, and that destructive fishing techniques are taking a wrecking ball to biodiversity.
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Any astronaut can tell you you’ve got to do everything you can to learn about your life support system and then do everything you can to take care of it.
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There is a terribly terrestrial mindset about what we need to do to take care of the planet.
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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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A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.
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I find the lure of the unknown irresistible.
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Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost.
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Ocean acidification – the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid.
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We did not want, from garbage and nuclear wastes to sludge from sewage to entire ships that had reached the end of their useful life.
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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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No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea.
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If somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage.
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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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