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Sylvia Earle

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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Everyone has power. But it doesn’t help if you don’t use it.
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Everyone Has Help Power
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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Big Care Harm Itself Matter Nothing Ocean Possible Somehow Vast
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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Against Amount Conerm Consumption Destructive Extract Fish Human Industrial Large Modest Ocean Onglining Practices Really Scale Trawling Wildlife
I have lots of heroes: anyone and everyone who does whatever they can to leave the natural world better than they found it.
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Anyone Better Can Leave Everyone Found Have Heroes Lot World
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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Encounter First Knock Ocean Old Over People Three Was Wave Year
We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.
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Alter Become Effective Fright Nature
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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Big Blue Country Fish Krill Percent Remain Sam Some Still Thing Whale
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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Care Dependent Do Live Need Ocean Respect Take Them They
There’s something missing about how we’re informing the youngsters coming along about what matters in the world. We teach them the numbers and the letters, but we fail to communicate the importance of our connection to the living world.
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Along Come How Informing Matter Mis Something Tyounester World
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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Ocean acidification – the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid.
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The concept of ‘peak oil’ has penetrated the hearts and minds of people concerned about energy for the future. ‘Peak fish’ occurred around the end of the 1980s.
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Concept Concern Energy Future Heart Mind Peak Penetrate People
There are some who would like to see the oil rigs removed right down to the ground once their job is done, and there are others, and I count myself among them, who think that once they are in place they begin to be adopted by life in the ocean as a habitat.
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Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It’s agriculture. It’s golf courses. It’s domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately, where does it go? Downstream into the gulf.
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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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Anyone Astronaut Can Everyone Everything Hero Learn Life Support System

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