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.
SYLVIA EARLESome 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.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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Everyone has power. But it doesn’t help if you don’t use it.
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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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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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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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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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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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Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.
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The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.
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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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All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class – which wasn’t such a bad deal.
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Places change over time with or without oil spills, but humans are responsible for the Deepwater Horizon gusher – and humans, as well as the corals, fish and other creatures, are suffering the consequences.
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The Arctic is a place that historically, during all preceding human history, has largely been an icy realm with an impact on ocean currents.
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And there’s no question that it is a factor, but it’s preceded by the loss of resilience and degradation.
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Health to the ocean means health for us.
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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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