I personally have stopped eating seafood.
SYLVIA EARLEThe best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder.
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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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No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea.
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Health to the ocean means health for us.
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With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected to the sea.
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You should be afraid if you are in the ocean and don’t see sharks.
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They have a lateral line down their whole body that senses motion, but maybe it does more than that.
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If we could magically transport ourselves back to the young Earth, when it was only a billion years old or two billion years old or three billion years old or four billion years old.
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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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No water, no life. No blue, no green.
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It’s akin to using a bulldozer to catch a butterfly, destroying a whole ecosystem for the sake of a few pounds of protein. We wouldn’t do this on land, so why do it in the oceans?
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The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder.
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I’m friends with James Cameron. We’ve spent time together over the years because he is a diver and explorer and in his heart of hearts a biologist. We run into each other at scientific conferences.
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On a sea floor that looks like a sandy mud bottom, that at first glance might appear to be sand and mud, when you look closely and sit there as I do for a while and just wait, all sorts of creatures show themselves, with little heads popping out of the sand. It is a metropolis.
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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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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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