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.
SYLVIA EARLEThey have curiosity. ‘Who, what, where, why, when, and how!’ They never stop asking questions, and I never stop asking questions, just like a five year old.
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We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return.
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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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Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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In terms of personal choices, let’s all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.
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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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Nearly all of the major kinds of life, divisions of life, phyla of animals, occur in the sea. Only about half of them can make it to land or freshwater.
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Everyone has power. But it doesn’t help if you don’t use it.
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Just as we have the power to harm the ocean, we have the power to put in place policies and modify our own behavior in ways that would be an insurance policy for the future of the sea, for the creatures there, and for us, protecting special critical areas in the ocean.
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The fragility, and even the degradation of our planet’s blue heart.
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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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