What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.
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.
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By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many other large creatures that prospered in the Gulf for millions of years had been depleted by overfishing.
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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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We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.
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Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe.
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America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference.
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I love music of all kinds, but there’s no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laughing; my kids, too.
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My first encounter with the ocean was on the Jersey Shore when I was three years old and I got knocked over by a wave.
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I would love to slip into the skin of a fish and know what it’s like to be one. They have senses that I can only dream about.
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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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I actually love diving at night; you see a lot of fish then that you don’t see in the daytime.
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Every fish fertilizes the water in a way that generates the plankton that ultimately leads back into the food chain, but also yields oxygen, grabs carbon – it’s a part of what makes the ocean function and what makes the planet function.
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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 fragility, and even the degradation of our planet’s blue heart.
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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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I’ve always said, ‘Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.’
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